PART IN WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1942, Page 4

PART IN WAR

DEMANDED FOR JEWS ATTITUDE OF BRITISH ARMY. DENOUNCED BY COLONEL WEDGWOOD. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, February 15. Declaring that the war could be won only by securing the assistance of everybody able and willing to fight Hitler, Colonel J. C. Wedgwood, speaking to the Hampstead Zionist Society, said: “It appears to be a fixed and settled principle of the British Army that it is the exclusive privilege of Englishmen to lay down their lives for liberty. This exclusive principle is dangerous to the Empire. We might have had 500,000 trained Chinese troops fighting on our side in Malaya but for this Army attitude. 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? The 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 had permitted them to do so, but they were not even permitted to form Home Guards. It maddens the Jews, who have only one desire, namely to get into the British Army, Navy or Air Force and kill Hitlerism.”