London newspapers continue today to press the Government for action to check organized anti-Jewish propaganda which is being conducted through anonymous leaflets and inscriptions on walls.
“Anti-Semitism constitutes the gravest peril for Britain,” writes Hannen Swaffer, noted columnist. He demands that the government publish facts disproving the claims of the anti-Semitic propagandists that Jews are not serving in the armed forces. He emphasizes that it is essential that the British public be informed that Jews constitute thirteen percent of the British Army, which is three percent more than their proportion of the general population.
Relating that “the latest lie which the fascists are now spreading in London” is that Jews caused the recent disaster in a London shelter which resulted in the death of 178 persons, Mr. Swaffer points out that this particular shelter was not used by Jews. Reynold’s News, a London Sunday newspaper, reporting yesterday that anti-Semitic elements are exploiting the shelter accident for anti-Jewish propaganda, demanded that the Government take measures to put an end to the “organized propaganda” against the Jews in London.
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