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The acrimonious debate over British policy towards refugees from
the Nazi rome has scarcely died down even now, some 60 years later.
Bitter charges of indifference and lack of feeling are still
levelled at politicians and civil servants, and the assertion is
made that Great Britain's record on refugee matters is shabby and
unworthy of its liberal traditions. Island Refuge is the definitive
account of a largely unexplored and still highly controversial
episode in twentieth-century history. This reprinted edition
contains a new preface discussing historiographical developments
since the first edition.
The acrimonious debate over British policy towards refugees from
the Nazi rA(c)gime has scarcely died down even now, some 60 years
later. Bitter charges of indifference and lack of feeling are still
levelled at politicians and civil servants, and the assertion is
made that Great Britain's record on refugee matters is shabby and
unworthy of its liberal traditions. Island Refuge is the definitive
account of a largely unexplored and still highly controversial
episode in twentieth-century history. This reprinted edition
contains a new preface discussing historiographical developments
since the first edition.
The acrimonious debate over the British policy toward refugees from
the Nazi regime has scarcely died down even now, some forty years
later. bitter charges of indifference and lack of feeling are still
leveled at politicians and civil servants, and the assertion made
that Great Britain's record on refugee matters is shabby and
unworthy of her liberal traditions. It has now become possible to
investigate the truth of these charges and to analyse the reaction
tin Britain to refugees from the Third Reich throughout the
eventful years preceding the outbreak of war. Based on Government
and private papers only recently released for public scrutiny, this
book is the first authoritative study of the British response to a
refugee crisis which posed many highly emotional and contentious
issues in both domestic and foreign policy, and proved na acute
irritant in Anglo-American relations. There were no simple answers,
no obvious or rapid solutions in a world which frequently seemed to
have no room for refugees and but scant sympathy for their plight.
Harassed by conflicting pressures form home and abroad, all too
aware that greater generosity to refugees from Nazism might well
inspire imitative mass expulsions from Eastern Europe, Whitehall
officials struggled to maintain an older British tradition of
political asylm while still avoiding, at a time of massive
unemployment, a sudden large-scale influx of aliens. Initial
caution, insensitivity and confusion gave way after the Anschluss
to a greater awareness of the critical need, and ultimately to a
large-scale modification, under the sheer pressure of refugee
numbers, of polices which had virtually hardened into
constitutional doctrine. Britain's record concerning refugees from
the Third Reich was a mixed one. Far less welcoming at first than a
number of countries, but ultimately more generous than many,
including the United States, Britain did grant asylum to a
significantly large number of refugees in the crowded months before
the outbreak of hostilities. The reasons for the dramatic turnabout
in British refugee policy emerge clearly from this dispassionate
and carefully documented study. Inland Refuge sheds definite light
on a largely unexplored and still highly controversial episode in
twentieth-century history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1973.
The acrimonious debate over the British policy toward refugees from
the Nazi regime has scarcely died down even now, some forty years
later. bitter charges of indifference and lack of feeling are still
leveled at politicians and civil servants, and the assertion made
that Great Britain's record on refugee matters is shabby and
unworthy of her liberal traditions. It has now become
possible to investigate the truth of these charges and to analyse
the reaction tin Britain to refugees from the Third Reich
throughout the eventful years preceding the outbreak of war. Based
on Government and private papers only recently released for public
scrutiny, this book is the first authoritative study of the British
response to a refugee crisis which posed many highly emotional and
contentious issues in both domestic and foreign policy, and proved
na acute irritant in Anglo-American relations. There were no
simple answers, no obvious or rapid solutions in a world which
frequently seemed to have no room for refugees and but scant
sympathy for their plight. Harassed by conflicting pressures form
home and abroad, all too aware that greater generosity to refugees
from Nazism might well inspire imitative mass expulsions from
Eastern Europe, Whitehall officials struggled to maintain an older
British tradition of political asylm while still avoiding, at a
time of massive unemployment, a sudden large-scale influx of
aliens. Initial caution, insensitivity and confusion gave way after
the Anschluss to a greater awareness of the critical need, and
ultimately to a large-scale modification, under the sheer pressure
of refugee numbers, of polices which had virtually hardened into
constitutional doctrine. Britain's record concerning refugees
from the Third Reich was a mixed one. Far less welcoming at first
than a number of countries, but ultimately more generous than many,
including the United States, Britain did grant asylum to a
significantly large number of refugees in the crowded months before
the outbreak of hostilities. The reasons for the dramatic turnabout
in British refugee policy emerge clearly from this dispassionate
and carefully documented study. Inland Refuge sheds definite
light on a largely unexplored and still highly controversial
episode in twentieth-century history. This title is part of
UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of
California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest
minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist
dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed
scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology.
This title was originally published in 1973.
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