DISMISSAL OF GERMAN JEWESS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PRESS. Sir,—We are supposedly fighting for right and justice in this war. Can you see the^justice in this? German refugees of Jewish extraction have been accepted by the Army and are now serving in the 3rd Echelon. And yet our Government has recently dismissed from the Health Department, without notice and with refusal of reasons, one of its most efficient officers, who is a German national of Jewish extraction. . If the dismissal was made for any other reason than,, that she is an’enemy alien, why could not that reason be given her? Would a New Zealander of British origin be dismissed thus? No. Is this British justice? No.—Yours, etc., BRITISH JUSTICE. July 28, 1940. [The Minister for Health (the Hon. H. T. Armstrong), to whom this letter Was submitted, commented as follows upon the statements by the correspondent:—(l) The subject of the letter was not dismissed because she is a German. (2) She was given reasons for her dismissal. (3) She was given one month’s salary in lieu of- notice. (4) The Health Department proposed to see that her services were made use of in some other capacity.]
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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23088, 2 August 1940, Page 12
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