Former spy who got 1000s of Jews out of Nazi Ger. honored as British Hero

BERLIN - A former British spy credited with using his cover as a passport officer to save thousands of Jews from Nazi Germany was honored as "a true British hero" Wednesday at his country's embassy in Berlin.

Frank Foley was posted to Berlin in the early 1920s by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the predecessor of MI6.

After Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, Foley used his official job as the embassy's passport control officer to issue visas to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution - often bending rules under which London was trying to limit Jewish migration to British-ruled Palestine.

"Without diplomatic immunity, at considerable personal risk to himself, this unassuming man chose to follow his conscience," British Ambassador Sir Peter Torry said before unveiling a plaque at the embassy to Foley, whose 120th birthday would have fallen Wednesday.
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We may need someone like that now for us "liberals" here in the U.S. in a few year's time