PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN LONDON

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21727, 9 March 1936, Page 17

PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN LONDON

HOME SECRETARY ADMITS DISSATISFACTION LONDON Mjwrph 6. Instances of the * persecution ‘ of Jews by Fascists in me,; East End-of London, were, quoted .by/ Mr E.. C. Morrison in the House of Commons. He said that a blackshirt who was e professional -boxer had strupk a ;Jew. \ M ' , ' - ' \ 'i*. , Fascists had-threatened'a Jewish woman that her. millinery,, sh°P would be burnt down, and had called .her hj, “dirty Jewish cow*” ' They, had pasted pn/hpuses and shops with thef"" inscriptions, “Get back tp' the and perish Judah.” A leaflet issued by the Imperial Fascist . League said that ; - were 3,000,000 Jews in' Bntain, elxnpst the -same number as the British unemployed- This was, inCitement siwiilar to that on which thp Nazi Government had based the Tevolution of 1933.; V, - ■ The Home* Secretary (Sir.Jphn Simon) confessed .that he’ waa\not satisfied With the situation ’in the East End. It had been decided to detail extra-police. -.lt was not'believed - that' there • was l ahy Wide * spread hostility to the Jews, but a disquieting movement was develop-, «**• i» oartaro uart«.<jf Ldndnio.