wait for permission to join their husbands and sweethearts. The reports, however, proved to be exaggerated, officials of the Warsaw Palestine office declared that only a few would be affected.
The representation made by the OZE to the British government and High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope were couched in the strongest terms and were supported by a group of British members of Parliament, including a number of women.
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