[D.] The
refugees
[6.9. England 1938: Press protests against
Jewish refugees]
[1938: GB: Protests in
the press against Jewish refugees]
The situation in France tended to repeat itself in other
countries. Britain experienced a wave of antirefugee
protest in some of its most vocal newspapers. The London
Times and the
Manchester Guardian
had voiced satisfaction with the outcome of Evian.
(End note 49: Andrew Sharf: The British Press and Jews
under Nazi Rule; Oxford 1964, p. 171)
But there was no necessary contradiction between that and
a basically negative attitude to Jewish immigration into
Britain. Jews had to find a haven and should be helped to
find one - but not in England. "Dreadful, dreadful are the
afflictions of Jewish people", cried the
Daily Express on
September 2, 1938, in an article which emphasized that
there was no room for them in Britain. The
Evening News went
even further on July 13: "Money we will provide, if need
be, but the law of self-preservation demands that the word
ENTER be removed from the gate."
(End note 50: Ibid. [Andrew Sharf: The British Press and
Jews under Nazi Rule; Oxford 1964], p.168
