Greater concentration of refugees in London is expected as a result of the coming into effect today of Home Office orders defining protected areas where aliens are not allowed to reside without special permission of the regional chief constable.
Most aliens advisory committees are already dealing with applications for extended residence filed by refugees in anticipation of the order. If an alien’s application is rejected he is given a further seven days to appeal to the Home Office.
Sir Norman Angell, noted author and lecturer, warned today that an anti-refugee campaign recently launched by a number of British newspaper was playing “completely the game of Hitler and Goebbels.” Writing in the weekly newspaper Picture Post on “Refugees–Allies or Enemies?” Sir Norman appealed to the Government to open the empty spaces of the Empire to the refugees and refuted the charge that they were acting as German agents.
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