The Foreign Office announced today that the parents of 13 Hungarian Jewish children who are believed to be among the Exodus refugees now ? route to Hamburg have appealed to the British Embassy in Budapest to assist in the repatriation of the children.
A Foreign Office spokesman said that the screening of the Exodus Jews might reveal 200 cases in which the “families were deliberately broken up by Zionists.” He revealed that preparations were being made in Hamburg to repatriate all such children.
The spokesman also accused Hungarian Zionists of a deliberate campaign to traffic in children in which “the Marxist Zionist youth movement, Hashomor Hatzair” was mainly involved. The Foreign Office statement went on to enumerate particulars of individual cases of children who were allegedly taken to embarkation conters without the knowledge of their parents, on the pretext of being trained for legal immigration to Palestine.
The British Zionist Federation has made a last minute appeal to Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin to reconsider the British Government’s decision to disembark the Exodus Jews at Hamburg and send them to two camps near Lubeck. Pointing to the recommendation of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine to admit 150,000 Jews to Palestine during the next two years, the appeal urged the Government to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the UNSCOP report to make a “statesman-like ##sture.”
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