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A.H. Lane: The Alien Menace: A Statement Of The Case (5th ed. 1934)
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"I want to examine the laws and regulations as to the entry of Aliens into this country, for in these days no Alien should be substituted for one of our own people when we have not enough work at home to go round."
--Mr. Baldwin in Election Speech broadcast on 16 October, 1924.
"Name-changing ought to be more strictly regulated. A good many of the Stewarts, Sinclairs, Gordons, and so forth in London originally came from Poland or Rumania, or their fathers did. When I meet in the street a man who has changed his name from Schwabacher to Shaw I feel like calling the police. The intention of name-changing is very often to deceive. In such cases it is essentially dishonest."
--Lieut.-Col. A.H. Lane (author also of "The Hidden Hand: A Plain Statement for the Man in the Street" (1938)).
Some foaming at the mouth going on here, but once you get over that, the clear parallels between the scenes it portrays from the 1920s-30s and those of today's UK are stunning. Also some apercus on various political contemporaries.
CONTENTS:
Preface To Fourth Edition.
Foreword to Second Edition by Lord Sydenham of Combe.
CHAPTER:
I. The Alien Problem.
II. Number of Aliens in the British Isles and How they Get Here.
III. Over-Population and Emigration.
IV. The Alien and Unemployment.
V. The Alien and Public Health.
VI. The Alien and Public Morals.
VII. The Cost of the Alien.
VIII. Aliens and the Films.
IX. Aliens and the B.B.C..
X. Aliens and Revolution.
XI. The Hidden Hand.
XII. Alien Influence in Politics.
XIII. Alien Influence in Ireland.
XIV. Alien Influence in Industry and Finance.
XV. Alien Influence in Education.
XVI. Alien Control in Palestine.
XVII. Naturalisation of Aliens.
XVIII. War Debts.
XIX. What Should Be Done.
APPENDICES:
I. Alien Immigration.
II. Some Methods of Censorship.
III. Marx, Engels and the Hohenzollerns.
IV. Alien Crooks, by Captain W. Stanley Shaw.
V. Cases in the Courts.
VI. Aliens—Legislation in and since 1914.
VII. Draft Aliens Restrictions and Status of Aliens Bill.
Index.
<<The following, from the Evening News (2 October, 1931), is interesting:-
"Why there are so many Communists on Clydeside is explained by Mr. Bain Irvine in 'The Scots Year Book for 1932.' He says: 'Large and ever-increasing numbers of Poles have settled in the mining districts of the West of Scotland.
"'They are largely responsible for the great sympathy with the Communist movement for which such a town as Motherwell, for example, is noteworthy. And the wild men of the Clyde owe their following largely to the Bolshevik doctrines which have been so assiduously preached by those strangers in our midst.
"'Now these Poles are, one by one, dropping their original names and assuming those of their Scottish wives, or they are altering their own so that it has more of a Scottish flavour. Thus Simski becomes Simpson and Watski alters itself readily to Watson.'" The large proportion of Aliens or children of Aliens in the Glasgow area is mainly the result of this large immigration. ...
In the winter of 1930-31, the United States of America held a Government Commission on the Alien question. On the recommendation of this Commission the U.S.A. decided to deport about 120,000 undesirable Aliens. Most of these people were anarchists or criminals in their native countries. It was therefore impossible for them to return home. Whither did they go? As other countries, except the British Isles, have a thorough system re immigration or registration of Aliens, many of these undesirables naturally made for this country. No doubt many knew that under the Socialist regime regulations re Aliens had been further relaxed. Did Bukharin come here in July, 1931, to help to organise these anarchists? ...>>