Three youths arrested last night at an anti-fascist demonstration outside a school in the East End of London where Sir Oswald Mosley was addressing a meeting, were today released on bail. Two of the youths, Jack Myerovitch and Lewis Lee, are Jews.
In a reply to a resolution from the London County Council urging the Home Office to use its powers to halt the spread of fascist and anti-Semitic propaganda, Home Secretary James Chuter Ede today said that criminal proceedings are being taken against “persons who are alleged to have behaved at meetings in a manner prohibited by law.” He added that police assigned to cover the various fascist meetings have carried out their duties “with skill and impartiality.”
Sidney Silverman and Barnett Janner, both Labor MP’s, yesterday called on Ede to amend the law pertaining to seditious libel so as to plug loopholes. They cited the recent acquittal of James Caunt on charges growing out of an editorial he wrote calling for the use of force against Jews. Ede replied that after he sees the official report of the case he will recommend whatever may be necessary “to bring the law into line with what most people thought it was.”
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