Information Issued by the Association of Jewish Refugees in Great Britain 8 Fairfax Mansions
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Vol. XVII No. 11 November, 1962 INFORMATION ISSUED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH REFUGEES IN GREAT BRITAIN 8 FAIRFAX MANSIONS. FINCHLEY RD. (corner Fairfax Rd.). London, N.W.J Office and Consulting Hours: Telephone: MAIda Vale 9096 7 (General Office and Welfare for the Aged) MAIda Vale 4449 (Employment Agency, annually licensed by the L.C.C.. Monday to Thursday ^0 a.m.—l p.m. 3—6 p.m. and Social Services Dept.) Friday 10 a.m.—l p.m. m THIS FAIR LAND . "NOTHING WILL STOP US" Colin Jordan, leader of the National Socialist Movement, with John Tyndall. Ian Kerr-Ritchie AGAINST RACE HATRED Colin Jordan and John Tyndall, leaders of thc and Denis Piric, are being jointly charged with National Socialist Movement ip Britain, against taking part in running Spearhead, an organisation conviction and sentence for using insulting words for training and equipping members for the use ^^t Rev. Bill SargenL initiator of Ihc Yellow in Trafalgar Square on July I. Mr. Scaton had L •'>ovcmcnl. has urged thc Labour Parly and stated that Jews should be able to put up with and display of physical force in promoting a trade unions to take the menace of fascism criticism. Sir Leslie told the large audience that political object. i.!l!' "country very seriously. Fascism in all its he deplored such statements. Jordan told the jury at the Old Bailey fiom he states, poses a threat not only to racial inoi Emphasising thc need for further legislation lo the witness box that if he were sent to prison it "Hties and democracy as a whole but even stop race hatred. Sir Leslie also called upon Jews would not stop him or his organisation. " Nothing particularly to trade unionism and the lo fight back. He said that Jews were not respected •ork will stop us. As long as 1 live I shall light for ^fs' right to strike. when they " crawled " ; they were respected only thc right of my race and nation. I am guilty when they stood up against attacks. IJC '^- Sargent said that Transport Hou.se should of being anti-Jewish because I love my country ^ *'<: a special investigation into British fascism, Dayan M. Steinberg spoke emotionally of his and hale what the Jews have done to il. I am survival from the Nazis and of how his own wife proud of being a National Socialist." •''fliifications. its composition and its sources of and daughter had survived the Bclscn concentra •^lal support, both British and foreign. tion camp. It was with deep pain and indignation Thc National Socialist Movement has issued a new leaflet entitled " The Jewish Threat lo ^ ^'erring to Jordan's statement in court that that one had. today, 16 years after thc end of thc war, to speak about racial discrimination. Thc Freedom." It is described as a follow-up lo the Com ^'^^"^ Square rally was broken up bv " Hitler was Right" pamphlet. Vgl2?'"nists and Yellow Star gangsters," Mr, whole structure of the country and thc peace and ^elS"' ^^"^ "^*' °" •'"'y ' ^'^ alone was " thc security of the people in this island were under- The latest pamphlet says that " because thc tern ^'^"^ gangster" as thc movement started mind by these attacks, which were launched not National Socialist Movement has dared to expose j^ntineously only on that day. But he was not only against Jews, and challenge Jewish control of Britain, thc Jews tj '"^ 'he Square ; he was on thc steps of thc The object of the meeting was also to launch a arc seeking to ban free speech on thc Jewish y'lj) church of St. Martin-in-the-Fic!ds with petition calling upon Parliament to amend thc question by stretching existing laws and intro '• '0\v Star pinned to his cassock. law. ducing new laws to protect them from all criticism, and ban thc National Socialist Move |, chose Ihe Yellow Star as thc symbol because The Board of Deputies' policy of advising ment and any other organisation which opposes «j^ *^.day it was the Jewish community that was (j^*" Y'lified and I wanted to show my'idcntitica- people to keep away from fascist rallies and of the Jews and procure thc imprisonment of its (^ *"h it. 1 decided on that afternoon to be a campaigning for changes in the law. has been leaders." , myself." he recalled. approved by Deputies. Some, however, called It calls on Ihc British people to "defend your this policy " negative ". i].,^ad the British Nazis on that dav held a heritage against this Jewish threat" and urges 1^', yndcr the slogan 'Keep Britain White' and The Chairman of the Board's Defence Com support for the National Socialist Movement " in IJVJ *'''<^C Britain from Jewish Control.' I would mittee. Mr. John Dight. stated thai as a result its fight for thc liberation of our country from llyj^.(.P''obably blackened my face to identify of the violence and subsequent publicity which Jewish control, thc exclusion of coloured (^'t with the vilified coloured people in this have accompanied fascist meetings since July I. immigrants and thc establishment of a new and ''rhi ^' '" which case wc might have had. the menace of fascism has increased not only in greater Britain." ftli„ ^' ^ Black Face Movement instead of the this country but also in Europe and thc American "o* Star." Continent. He therefore urged thc Board to MOSLEY'S ATTITUDE CLARIFIED reiterate its former policy regarding such meet l|ov[;_?f gent, a member of thc Christian Socialist ings and thereby " re-establish thc climate" •' Action ", the organ of Moslcy's Union Move i^ ""lent and a Labour Councillor in Hackney. which hitherto prevailed. ment, in a recent i»sue clarifies its leader's attitude Vj-/°^rcssing a meeting of the Stamford Hill towards British Jews. %rj>^ Ihe Labour Party on the aims and devel- The major proposal of the Defence Commit ^ J^t of thc Yellow Star Movement, tee's report was that the Board should co-operate He states bluntly that many Jews (" out of all with other organisations—Jewish and non-Jewish proportion to thc number in this country ") have J'tiU ^*^"ow Star Movement's nation-wide —in sponsoring the Yellow Star petition request been engaged in attacks on his movement, and •ill t " '" support of Mr. Fenner Brockway's ing Parliament to make public incitmcnt to race adds: " In fact they are coming very near to lcf:°. "lake the public incitement of race hatred hatred a punishable offence. becoming engaged as a community." '"rth offence is being so well supported that ^f petition forms have been printed. While insisting that this does not alter the YOUTH ACTS movement's policy—" we attack no man on ">»itw°'^'''"8 to the Rev. Bill Sargent, joint account of race or religion"—Mosley gives a Wm?"^'' °f 'he movement, thc original 10,000 warning that those Jews who have participated in b«c^ • ?ach providing for 50 signatures, had all Three hundred teenagers from Jewish and non- attack<» on his group " will have to take thc conse toi^j "'stributcd and demands for more were Jewish youth clubs in the Hackney area marched quences ". They would in fact be prosecuted and 1 I "8 m from all parts of Britain. from Ridley Road. Dalston. to Whitehall to punished as soon as Britain had a government Pfn^^'n*^^' ^^^'^^ f^r- Sargent, had come both present a letter to the Prime Minister calling for " which would administer thc law without fear or \ A'" .''^iduals and from organisations, including favour". Furthermore, they would be liable to •a^^u'""Apartheid Movement and various union legislation against incitement to race hatred. deportation as " undesirable foreigners". But f^'Ua • ^^ addressed the National Union of Some of the marchers carried banners, one of Mosley assures the individual Jew who has done ;ti(j ypcn at thc request of its members, and which read: " Did we fight the last war in vain ? " no wrong that " he has nothing to fear from us ". "1 forms were distributed at the meeting. The letter to thc Prime Minister stated: " Action " concludes that " so many Jews attack Ifcil " '00.000 people have already signed thc " Wc. thc members of thc youth clubs in Hack us and go to such extreme lengths of violence" ''lion -^ anti-fascist petition, for which a because " some of Ihe people who incite to these " signatures arc required. ney, sincerely believe that we are faced with thc most important issue of our lives. The Nazi crimes . are involved in the vicious and corrupt --gj-r-^^'is Plummer. M.P.. addressing a meeting movement in Britain is beginning once again to practices which the laws of our future system will ^^sor , ''- "^^ South London branches of the rear its ugly head and we remember only too well bring to an end ". " &ri'fi °^ Jewish Ex-Scrvicemen and Women the millions* of men. women and children Mosley is strongly critical of other fascist move H,|y i^'on Synagogue Hall, made a demand not slaughtered in thc last war as a result of thciu ments in this country, and condemns Nazism Hit ,1,'' .3" inquiry into the activities of fascists which, he insists, is " something entirely German also i doctrines. Wc of thc present generation do into the administration of the law. not want a repetition of the pre-war days of the and nothing to do with fascism in any other L F c *^ referred to a recent remark by Mr. 1930s and wc would therefore respectfully pray country ". He describes the mass murder of Jews j • Scaton, the Chairman of the London that a law be passed making incitement to race as " an unforgettable crime against humanity ".— "S.