They all included quotes from Professor Christopher Andrew, the official historian of MI5. It must have accompanied the latest release of intelligence documents that had arrived in the National Archives. These newspaper articles and television programmes had the same information and was clearly based on some kind of Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) press release about the journalist, Cedric Belfrage, who died in 1990. Later that day the BBC and Channel 4 broadcast the same story. The Daily Mail used the headline, More prized than Philby, the film critic turned Soviet agent who passed secrets while working for British security services in the US - but was never tried whereas the Financial Times went with Cedric Belfrage - ‘sixth man’ Soviet spy who hid in plain sight. On Friday morning (21st August), the BBC ran a story on its website entitled, Cedric Belfrage, the WW2 spy Britain was embarrassed to pursue. In the first three months of Hitler rule, over forty Jews were murdered. Synagogues were trashed and all over Germany gangs of brownshirts attacked Jews. The day after the March, 1933, election, stormtroopers hunted down Jews in Berlin and gave them savage beatings. Based on his readings of how blacks were denied civil rights in the southern states in America, Hitler attempted to make life so unpleasant for Jews in Germany that they would emigrate. Once in power Adolf Hitler began to openly express anti-Semitic ideas. The failure to agree on a way of dealing with this crisis resulted in about 180,000 German Jews dying in concentration camps. This one involved the desire by the Jewish community to leave Nazi Germany. Seventy-seven years ago this month, world leaders were discussing another migration crisis. Cameron is unwilling to become involved in negotiations about taking more refugees and recently told journalists that the current crisis might be the thing that might be responsible for the British people voting to leave the European Union. The European Commission estimated last month that another three million refugees could arrive before the end of 2016. (2)Įuropean leaders are gathering in Brussels today for an end of year summit which will include discussions on the of one and a half million refugees that have entered Europe this year. The UK government has promised to accept 20,000 Syrians over five years. The same day that the report was published, it was announced that the first 1,000 Syrian refugees have now arrived in the UK under the government's scheme to resettle vulnerable people living in refugees camps, David Cameron has said he had met his pledge to bring the first 1,000 people to the UK by Christmas. The majority of them are women and children. A new joint report from the World Bank and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) claims that 90% of the 1.7 million Syrian refugees registered in Jordan and Lebanon are living in poverty. One in every five displaced persons worldwide last year was Syrian. Since war broke out in Syria almost five years ago, 6.5 million people have been internally displaced, almost 4.4 million forced to flee as refugees, and more than 250,000 killed.
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