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NO RIGHT OF APPEAL

Red Weekly No. 176, 1976 · p. 4 of the scan · 311 words

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Philip Agee and Mark Hosenball have no right of appeal against the Home Secretary's decision to deport them. They are merely allowed to "make representations" [on 29 November] to an advisory panel, whose three members are sir Hilton, Sir Clifford Jarret, and Richard Hayward.

This body is hardly independent. Hilton, who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the war, is an old intelligence hand now resting laurels and his directorships companies as Abbey National.

Jarret served in the Admiralty during the war and was Principal Establishment Officer in the Civil Service from 1946-50 again a job not unconnected with British intelligence, since it involves vetting civil service appointments to make sure that no reds get behind the desks in Derek Whitehall.

Sir Hayward does not have such splendid credentials, but even if he has any doubts his two fellow knights will soon put him in his place. In any case, should they someon his now auvise entency, kees is berted a liberty to ignore their recommendation! O SUCH Clearly only an effective outside campaign can save Agee and Hosenball from ceDoraTor.

BEHIND THE police 'Black Self-Defence' for me there was no-one to protest."

appeal rightly greeted with jeers and chants o At least another speaker, Joan Lestor, was a bit more poetic when she recalled ine response or une rerormists to the grown of the Nazis: 'When they came for the Jews I did not protest when they came for the communists I did not protest, wher they came for trade unionists i aid not protest, when wey ban But the mealy-mouthed and long overdue 'protests' of the platform as a whole talled to provide either the policies or th means of fighting racism. Only the left contingents on th march took up the chant: "End All Immigration Controls'.

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