TIDAL WAVE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 277, 23 November 1943, Page 5

TIDAL WAVE

OPPOSITION TO MOSLEY RELEASE PETITIONS OF PROTEST (By Telegri.ph—Press Association—Copyright) Recd. 8.40 p.m. London, Nov. 21. More protests were registered during the week-end against the decision of the Home Secretary, Mr. Herbert Morrision to release Sir Oswald and Lady Mosley. People in the West End and other parts of London lined up to sign petitions of protest, while protests were also being made at meetings. Mr. Reakes, M.P.. speaking at Caxton Hall, said:—"Apparently Mr. Morrison wants to explain away why Mosley should not die in prison. But whatever Mr. Morrison says won’t pacify outraged public opinion.” Mr. Deakin, acting general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, stated: “Whatever Mr. Morrison says of Mosley's illness, our people remember the illness of other political prisoners. Gandhi was at death's door but he was not released.”

A resolution adopted by a shop stewards’ protest meeting in London declared that the workers were ready to down tools.

Mr. Lawther, president of the Mine Workers’ Federations, stated the release of Mosley was likely seriously to affect workers in the mining industry. The Communist Party executive passed: a resolution demanding the immediate reversal of Mr. Morrison’s decision. Harry Pollitt, in a speech at a Communist Party protest meeting, said: “The tidal wave that has arisen should be a warning to the Government that it cannot play with the feelings of the people when they want to win the war and the peace.” The Sunday Pictorial says it asked a well-known specialist about phlebitis, from which Mosley is said to be suffering. The doctor said: "The best treatment for it is rest—in a cell.” German radio stations last night broadcast a "Salute to Mosley.” Lord Haw Haw praised Mosley’s "gallant fighting against international Jewry.” Herr Dietze described Mosley as "an English gentleman conscious of the call of Germanic blood.”