The removal from the British Parliament of the anti-Semitic Captain Archibald H. M. Ramsey is demanded in a resolution adopted today at a meeting of the Trade Union Associations of Peebles and South Midlothian held in Edinburgh. Ramsay represents these districts in Parliament.
The decision was taken after receipt of a letter from Ramsay in which he refused to resign as had been demanded by the Association. In his letter Ramsay denied that he had broken his pledge to support the National Government and to refrain from public anti-Semitic propaganda. Ramsay maintained that he kept his promise which specifically restricted him to make no public anti-Semitic utterances, but that his conscience required him to continue his anti-Semitic activities privately.
In May of 1940 Captain Ramsay together with the British Fascist leader Sir Oswald Moseley and others, was arrested in a round-up of “fifth columnists.” He was released after two weeks confinement.
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