REFUGEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 127, 30 May 1940, Page 6

REFUGEES.

, f ould like to support Mr. dc la -fare in his plea, for fair play to the 1 efugees from Nazi tyranny who cainc to New Zealand in search of liberty to u\e. Here is a true typical case. A young gentlewoman of culture and education when walking along a Berlin street was arrested, robbed of her money and thrown into prison simply and solely because she -was a Jewess" She _by the intervention of tlie American Ambassador ultimately released. and aided by her friends escaped over the border into Holland, and thence to New Zealand. Again, when Austria was raped by Hitlerism a, few persecuted Roman Catholics bereft of their possessions and grateful to esoape with tlieir lives, found an asylum in New Zealand, where they could lind Hlw»mv t«> f.»Sio\v their faith and live. WhiNt we must piotect ourselves by seaivhimr for traitoio in our midst, let us not a<l<l ei uelty to cruelly and intolerance to intolerance to these of the hideous monster of Hitlerism. li investigation is necessary, let it be fair, for suspicion is a bad judge. HENRY .1. HAYWARD.