BRITISH EXCLUSIVENESS

Waikato Times, Volume 130, Issue 21655, 16 February 1942, Page 5

BRITISH EXCLUSIVENESS

RECRUITS WILLING TO SERVE TWO DIVISIONS OF JEWS (Uniter! Press Assn.—Elcc. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 16, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 15 Declaring that the war could be won only by securing the assistance of everybody able and willing to fight Hitler, Lord Wedgwood, speaking to the Hampstead Zionist Society, said it appeared to be the fixed and settled principle of the British Army that it was the exclusive privilege of Englishmen to lay down their lives ror liberty. This exclusive principle was dangerous to the Empire. “We might have had half a million trained Chinese troops fighting on our side in Malaya but for this Army attitude,” Lord Wedgwood said. “What are we doing to let the Indians arm and defend themselves? The Japanese are uncommonly near the Indian Empire. Is India to be reserved for gentlemen to defend? “Jews in Palestine could have raised 50,000 men—three divisions, fully equipped by Jews in America —to defend their country if the War Office permitted them to do so, but they were not even permitted to form home guards. It maddens the Jews, who have only one desire, to get into the British Army, Navy and Air Force and kill Hitlerism.”