SECURITY MOVE
SENDING ALIENS ABROAD
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 14, 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, August 13
Replying in the House of Commons to a questioner who asked for particulars of the Government's action in respect to sending refugees and internees overseas, the Lord President of the Council, Mr. C. R. Attlee, said that in view of the new strategic situation resulting from the German occupation of the Low Countries and northern France the Government decided early in June that, in the interests of national security, it was desirable" to transfer overseas a number of enemy aliens interned in Britain. The Government considered the general danger which might arise from an attempted invasion of Britain of having a large number of enemy aliens concentrated in a number of camps in this country. Mr. Attlee said that 9120 Austrians, Germans, and Italians were therefore sent to Canada arid Australia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 39, 14 August 1940, Page 10
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