With the anti-British outbreaks in Palestine attracting attention in the United States, renewed interest in the expulsion from Palestine last week of Constantine Poulos, Overseas News Agency war correspondent, was manifested today in the American press and the War Department was again called upon by Herbert Bayard Swope, ONA board chairman, to obtain from the British military authorities an explenation of their action.
In a telegram today to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, Swope renewed his protest registered last week against the expulsion and reiterated his demand for in explanation from the British. Declaring that the action against Poulos, an American citizen, “would seem to have been highly political,” he expressed confidence that “neither the War Department nor the State department can support, even by indirection, this New to freedom of opinion, for which Britian and America have been fighting.”
The publications criticizing Britain for the expulsion of Poules included the Nation, the Boston Globe, the Milwaukee Journal, the Wisconsin State Journal, the Jacksonville Journal, the Watertown Times, and others.
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