Of 9,300 men, women and children given rescue and resettlement in 1962 by United Hias Service, 46 percent came to the United States, James P. Rice, executive director of United Hias, stated in his annual report issued today. The total figure of 9, 300 represented a 30 percent increase over the previous year, he said. Of the remaining 54 percent of the migrants, he added, resettlement was arranged by Hias in Canada, Brazil, and Australia.
According to the United Hias executive, “there is every reason to hope” that liberalized immigration legislation in the United States would “enable us further to extend our efforts; in making the United States one of the major receiving countries for Jewish migrants the world over.
Noting that air transport of Jews and non Jews from Cuba virtually ceased last October, during the Cuba-USSR crisis, Mr. Rice said “there is still a significant number of Jews in Cuba who have expressed their desire to emigrate. We are ready to provide assistance, if and when the circumstances permit it.” He also reported that United Hias Service has been officially designated by the French government, together with a Catholic, Protestant, and a non-sectarian agency, to provide assistance for those former French residents of Algeria who may wish to emigrate overseas.
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