18B in Force
The initial arrests were few and confined to those believed to be hard-core Nazis: by 14 September, there were only 14 people interned. Several of these were German or Austrian by birth but naturalized British subjects. The total would have been higher had not William Joyce been tipped off by an MI5 officer (probably Charles Maxwell-Knight) of his impending internment, allowing him to flee to Germany. A group of Labour and Liberal MPs attempted to annul Code B in Parliament on 31 October 1939 but were persuaded to withdraw their motion in favour of consultation which produced a slightly amended wording.
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“Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manoeuver, a blow with an agreement.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)