NEWCOMERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 January 1939, Page 8

NEWCOMERS

FOREIGNERS IN LONDON [By Air Mail-Own Correspondent! LONDON, sth January. One wonders if there has been any time in London’s history since the arrival of the Huguenots when so many foreigners could be seen and heard in the capital. Some of the smaller restaurants in the West End sound like German beer-houses, for refugees, most of them Jews, are more than ever in evidence as each month passes. Very many of these refugees have taken up residence in Hampstead, and a Fleet Street colleague tells me that the morning and evening tube journeys to and from the city are an experience for those who seek to pick a few words of the German tongue. This influx, by the way, lately gave rise to an amusing Parliamentary question to the Home Secretary by a Conservative backbencher, who inquired plaintively whether the Government is thinking of setting aside a section of England as a national home for the English. However, the refugees seem to be settling down without causing any of those manifestations of anti-Semitism—or anti-alienism—which were feared in some quarters. The only question about their coming that is posed seriously among Londoners is whether they will volunteer on Britain’s behalf in the event of an emergency. There must be no more rallies at Maidenhead in an* other war.