About 1, 200 Jews became naturalized as citizens of Brazil during 1963, according to statistics issued here today by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry. The Ministry gave the total of 1963 naturalizations as 4, 997, and estimated that approximately 25 per cent of the total were Jews who had come from other lands.
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