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Foreign Office Says Jews Will Not Be Shipped to Kenya

August 8, 1947
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Reports that the 4,500 Jews from the Exodus 1947, who are marooned on three British deportation vessels in the French harbor of Port de Bouc, will be transshipped during the week-end to Kenya, were denied here today by a spokesmen of the Foreign Office.

He also ruled out the possibility that the refugees’ destination was any British possession in the Mediterranean and said that he hoped the immigrants would reconsider their position and agree to land in France.

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