24 MARCH
DAILY EXPRESS FRONT PAGE – “JUDEA DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY”
[ 24 March 1933 ]
Today in 1933, the Daily Express reinforced anti-Semitic prejudice by a front page headline which portrayed Jews as an all powerful bourgeois plutocracy.
‘UNWISE TO OVERLOAD THE BASKET’ – THE DAILY EXPRESS ON TAKING JEWISH REFUGEES FROM NAZI GERMANY
 Georg Pahl – April 1933 – CC License via Wikimedia.
[ 24 March 1938 ]
On this day in 1938, the Daily Express editorial, under the headline ‘Shall All Come In ?’ argued against allowing into Britain a large number of desperate Jewish refugees facing murderous persecution in Nazi Germany. It claimed that despite ‘powerful agitation here to admit all Jewish refugees without question or discrimination… It would be unwise to overload the basket…’ The newspaper asked ‘What if Poland, Hungary, Rumania also expel their Jewish citizens ? Must we let them in too ?’ and it reasoned that ‘because we DON’T want anti-Jewish uproar we DO need to show common sense in not admitting all applicants.’1
HAROLD WILSON DECLARES HIS FULL SUPPORT FOR U.S. WAR CRIMES.
[ 24 March 1965 ]
On 24 March 1965, Prime Minister Harold Wilson made it clear that his government supported the US assault on Vietnam, including chemical warfare in the south and the bombing of North Vietnam in contravention of international law.
FOOTNOTE
- The Daily Express, 24 March 1938 quoted in A.J. Sherman, Island Refuge: Britain and refugees from the Third Reich, Elek Books, London 1973, p. 94.
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