The Manchester Guardian said today that anti-Nazis as well as Nazis were on board the Arandora Star when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast Tuesday morning.
The newspaper charged also that deportation of aliens in category C, previously unrestricted and regarded as friendly, had been kept secret from relatives and that refugee organization officials had not been informed.
Meanwhile, George R. Strauss, Labor M.P., announced that he would ask in Commons next Tuesday whether the Arandora Star was under convoy at the time it was torpedoed, whether it had ample lifeboat provision, how many of the Germans aboard were known to be Nazis, how many came to England as refugees, when relatives and friends would be provided with the names of those drowned and whether in the future it was proposed to transport internees on unconvoyed ships.
Home Secretary Sir John Anderson today declined in Commons to make a definite statement on the Home Office policy with regard to internment of aliens. He declared, however, that in view of the “exigencies of the military situation,” certain further categories of Germans and Austrians were being interned as a precautionary measure. He said measures were being taken to exempt from internment certain categories of persons whose position could be distinguished by the value of their services to the national war effort.
Sir John told Commons yesterday that the Government was considering removal of Sir Oswald Mosley and other detained Fascist leaders to the dominions to place.
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