21 March 1941: ‘Anything in the nature of persecution,victimisation, or man-hunting is odious to the British people’ - Churchill The Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons yesterday that the B.
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C. had lifted its prohibition on artists who attended the People’s conference.
Mr. George Strauss (Lab. - North Lambeth) asked about the dismissal of Messrs. F. W. T. Atkin and J. Clapham, and skilled technicians on the B.
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C. staff,because they had been exempted from military service on grounds of conscience, and about political discrimination by the B.
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C. in regard to the employment of its artists and technicians.
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Source: theguardian.com