An almost bumper-to-bumper caravan of busses tonight brought 2,000 Hungarian Jews to Vienna. They crossed the frontier west of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia.
Authorities stated that most of the refugees were youngsters and adolescents who had undergone agricultural training as prospective Israeli settlers. Last week it was reported here that the Czechoslovak authorities had decided to seal the frontier with Austria and that the westward passage of Jews from Hungary and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, by way of Bratislava, would be forbidden.
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