- 12 May 2024 14:06
#15315326
May 12, Sunday
Aliens are interned or put under curfew in eastern Britain
Three thousand enemy aliens are rounded up for internment today throughout the eastern counties of England and Scotland, from the Isle of Wight to Inverness. The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, applies the order to all German and Austrian men between sixteen and sixty, excluding invalids. No German or Austrian may enter the restricted area without permission.
All other aliens, of whatever nationality, living in the eastern counties must report daily to the police and are forbidden to use cars or bicycles or to go out between 8 pm and 6 am. The restrictions apply to about 11,000 aliens.
At the outbreak of war many aliens were rounded up, but only 486, or fewer than one percent, were detained by the Aliens’ Tribunals. A further 8,000 had their movements restricted. Over 50,000 stayed at liberty. Most of them are refugees from the Nazi regime.
There is no evidence of the existence in Britain of a “fifth column” of Nazi sympathizers. Some were sent to establish a network in Britain in the two years before the war, but the police Special Branch kept them under observation and arrested them as soon as war was declared.
Aliens are interned or put under curfew in eastern Britain
Three thousand enemy aliens are rounded up for internment today throughout the eastern counties of England and Scotland, from the Isle of Wight to Inverness. The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, applies the order to all German and Austrian men between sixteen and sixty, excluding invalids. No German or Austrian may enter the restricted area without permission.
All other aliens, of whatever nationality, living in the eastern counties must report daily to the police and are forbidden to use cars or bicycles or to go out between 8 pm and 6 am. The restrictions apply to about 11,000 aliens.
At the outbreak of war many aliens were rounded up, but only 486, or fewer than one percent, were detained by the Aliens’ Tribunals. A further 8,000 had their movements restricted. Over 50,000 stayed at liberty. Most of them are refugees from the Nazi regime.
There is no evidence of the existence in Britain of a “fifth column” of Nazi sympathizers. Some were sent to establish a network in Britain in the two years before the war, but the police Special Branch kept them under observation and arrested them as soon as war was declared.
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke