[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
