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Friday, September 19, 1947
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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PANORAMA
When England Deported Americans
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
If we Jews are now very much
perturbed over the deportations of
the Exodus passengers to German
concentration camps, we may per
haps be somewhat heartened by
reading of the deportations of an
earlier date.
In the case of which I am think
ing, it was the English also who
did the deporting, but they were
not deporting Jews then. No, they
were deporting Americans.
I am referring to the ‘ impress
ments'’ of the period of the first
decade of the nineteenth century
which brought about the War of
1812. The British searched Ameri
can vessels for men whom they
said had formerly served with the
British Navy and carried them off.
Once an Englishman, they said,
always an Englishman. In carry
ing off these sailors, they admit
ted they were not always too care
ful.
The British Foreign Minister,
Lord Castlereagh, a man appar-
I ently of the Bevin type, said that
j perhaps the British had carried
off as many as 1,500 genuine
j Americans, who had been forced
j to work on British ships, but no
I more than that. The Americans
| insisted that the British had car-
| ried off more than 3,000 genuine
Americans.
The Americans held moreover
| that the British had no right to
carry off even those who had for-
' merly been in the British employ
i and today no one would question
j this American point of view. The
I British then did not recognize the
j right of naturalization, which
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-'eant that legally even the right
to emigrate was not admitted. In
this, the Colonial policy of Eng
land has scarcely moved apparent
ly from what it was years ago.
What is all this opposition to Jew
ish immigration to Palestine, but
the heritage of the idea that im
migration is essentially unlawful,
unless under official auspices.
It was Thomas Jefferson who
was the great exponent of immi
gration. He insisted that everyone
had the right to settle wherever
he wanted to be and it was Jeffer
son who worked to make natural
ization easy.
Tire Tories in America, of course,
took the British point of view.
When thr general American anger
over the British impressments
threatened to lead to war, the Tory
Federalists damned Jefferson for
having made the path of the im
migrant easy. One Federalist pam
phleteer wrote as follows:
”Our country has become in Vlie
language of Democrats, the asylum
of distressed humanity, which is
the new name for the vagabonds
and wandering felons of the uni
verse."
But the Federalists did not win
out. The people did not forget
the incident of the Chesapeake
when the British arrogantly fired
upon that ship and took away sev
eral of the crew and even hanged
one of the men.
America went to war with Eng
land chiefly on account of this
matter of impressment—of unlaw
ful seizure and deportation of
men.
The Exodus is a companion ship
to the Chesapeake.
Britain is still carrying on in
the spirit of the Chesapeake inci
dent. That is the sad moral which
the Exodus incident reveals. Yet
history brings one comforting les
son. Britain today would not dare
insult America as she did then.
She must come now and beg of
the people she abused money to
keep her from total collapse.
Perhaps some day she will be
glad to take aid from the people
she is currently abusing.
It was Ralph Waldo Emerson
who once remarked that the Eng
lishman himself is generally not
unpleasing, but that British for
eign policy has always favored the
wrong side. Emerson pointed to
the various countries of his day
in which the English had been
false and had knifed the liberal
I side.
In general, one might say that
British foreign policy has been
always on the side of the en-
I trenched. In China, the British
| introduced opium smoking, lest the
| people become alert and reform
their conditions of life. In Pales-
1 e, she has the same fear that
the Jews may do something pro
gressive. She cannot lull the Jews
with opium, so she must perforce
prevent them from coming in.
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