ALIENS MAY SERVE IN BRITISH ARMY
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Oct. 13. Regarding the question of the many aliens in Britain who are anxious tc join the British Army, the War Minister, Mr Hore-Belisha, said to-day s “Aliens in the United Kingdom can join the British Army. Any person resident in the United Kingdom could volunteer for service in the army. When the classes are called up, we shall be glad to see in those classes any foreign resident of Britain who desires to be called up if he is within the age limits In that respect, they will be treated exactly the same as British subjects The door is open to all subjects, nat* urally subject to the control of the Home Office. “While we have no restrictions oj nationality, we are not contemplating forming any foreign legion, such 55 exists in France, for Poles and Czechs,’* he added. “In this war we have abolished all distinctions in the Army. It is now one army.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 244, 16 October 1939, Page 8
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