About 4,000 Jewish immigrants will enter Australia from Europe in 1951, Leo Fink, chairman of the Australian Jewish Welfare and Relief. Society, said here today. Mr. Fink, who has just returned from a trip surveying conditions in Europe, said that prospective migrants in Europe rated Australia highly as a place of settlement.
Jewish quarters here and in other parts of Australia have expressed concern over the proposal by Immigration Minister Harold Holt to admit 25,000 German immigrants to Australia annually. Of particular concern is Minister Holt’s reference to Jewish opposition to the plan.
Speaking of this opposition, the Minister declared that many Jewish people had found in Australia a haven from Nazi persecution. These people, he said, should show “some tolerance and understanding” which had been shown them by the Australian Government which had admitted them. Protest meetings are scheduled to be held here and in other parts of the Commonwealth in opposition to the immigration plan and Labor Party leaders have already spoken out in Parliament and elsewhere against the Holt proposal.
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