Sir, - Just to inform Mr David Blake and his letter (April 20th), concerning asylum-seekers. Ireland was just as guilty for its refusal to admit Jews during the 1930s.
If Mr Blake refers to Jews in Twentieth Century Ireland by Dermot Keogh, Professor of History at University College Cork, it points out that Ireland had a deliberate policy to keep undesirables, namely the Jews, out of Ireland.
They say a leopard never changes its spots.
The only European country to hold its head up high during the war was Denmark whose government made open efforts to defy the Nazis and help its Jewish population. - Yours, etc.,
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Keith Davies, Newtown, Pennsylvania.