TEST OF POLICY
Deserter In Sweden
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) MALMOE (Sweden), Dec. 4. A 24-year-old Negro deserter from the United States Army has presented the Swedish immigration authorities with a challenge to their traditional policy of providing asylum to purely political refugees. William Percell, who arrived at Malmoe by way of Copenhagen on November 23, and applied for political asylum on November 28, is reported to have claimed that 75 per cent of coloured United States soldiers in West Germany felt, as he did, that “the American war (in Vietnam) is not our war."
Percell fled from West Germany, where he was stationed, and arrived accompanied by his 25-year-old Danish girlfriend.
Officials in Stockholm said that if the authorities acted consistently with their traditions and granted Percell political asylum, they would be setting a precedent which would prevent their refusing similar refuge to other American deserters.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31544, 5 December 1967, Page 17
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