Food permits may be withheld from any hotel re?sing to serve Jewish or other customers on racial ground, Food Minister John trachey said today in a written reply to Tom Driberg, Independent Labor, who had asked what action would be taken against hotels at the resort towns of Margate and ?liftonville, whose brochures state “Gentiles Only.”
Strachey added that “I am sure that we all abominate racial discrimination as ?racticed in Cliftonville.” He said that he was examining the situation in Margate, where the Labor Party held its annual conference last month.
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