Two thousand persons attended a mass rally here this weekend to protest against Egyptian persecution and maltreatment of Jews in that country. The rally, sponsored by the Federation of Jewish Institutions of Rio De Janeiro, called upon Brazil’s President Juscelino Kubitschek, to grant entry visas to Egyptian Jewish refugees.
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