File. Cuttings relating to police evidence and activities

Reference No:
U DCL/1/3
Dates:
1934-1938
Description:

Including:

a) Anglo-German football match at Tottenham, December 1935 containing:

- legal course for 6 people arrested (6/12/1935 - 9/12/1935) and amicable writing to the Germans who came for the football match also criticising Hitler's Germany.

b) newspaper clippings of criticism of the police:

- the threat they inspire both preventing the signing of a petition (15/06/1935) and causing injury to an individual on the newspaper staff in the example but also more generally and the leniency given despite the acts of violence (18/02/1936)

- the threat of the police to the public (1/11/1934, 5/12/1934, 13/12/1934, 21/2/193513/03/1935, 11/10/1936, 28/11/1936)

- the idea of the secret police in other countries and the question of if Britain was so different (13/02/1937)

- communism being an influential idea especially amongst students

- investigation into anti-Semitism by a group of English gentlemen

- fascism and morality (24/11/1934)

- the distancing between the police and community

c) Anti-fascist parade (Poster Parade) in Whitechapel High St., January 1936, including the statement of Isidor Fastenfeld about his arrest

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
1 file
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Records of Liberty (formerly The National Council for Civil Liberties)