J.L. Garvin, editor of the London Observer and for years an advocate of English rapprochement with the dictatorships, declared today that those “who had striven hardest and longest for Anglo-German appeasement” had joined in horror and indignation at the anti-Jewish excesses in Germany. Mr. Garvin wrote in his paper a comprehensive review of “the vast, organized, pitiless vengeance” carried out against the German Jews after the fatal wounding of a German Embassy official in Paris by a Polish Jewish youth.
Baron Hailey, president of the British Committee for Coordination of Aid to Refugees, announced that he intends to place all relief organizations under a unified direction. Committees will be set up in all English cities, he said, for the purpose of coordinating local efforts, and in addition a Scottish Council of the Baldwin Fund will be established. Charles Laughton, the screen actor, spoke by radio today from the French liner Normandie en route to the United States in behalf of the Earl Baldwin Fund.
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