ENEMY ALIENS
CONTROL IN BRITAIN
CONDITIONS OF RELEASE FROM INTERNMENT
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 22, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, October 2i. The Home Secretary has added three new categories to the official list of those Germans and Austrians who are eligible for release from internment. They are: —(1) Persons of eminent distinction who have made outstanding contributions to art, science, learning, or letters; (2) students who at the time of their internment were pursuing a course of study at a university or a technical college, provided that the chancellor of the university or the head of the college certifies that it is desirable that the student should continue his studies and that the circumstances are such that a British student would in similar circumstances be allowed to continue his studies; and (3) any person as to whom the tribunal appointed by the Home Secretary for the purpose reports that since his early; childhood or for at least twenty years he has lived continuously in the United Kingdom, that he has long severed his connection with his country of nationality, that his interests and associations are British, and that he is friendly towards this country. ] Special committees to consider the, cases of artists, architects, and men I of letters, and to submit recommendations to the Home Secretary have been set up.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 98, 22 October 1940, Page 9
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220ENEMY ALIENS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 98, 22 October 1940, Page 9
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