Admission of victims of the recent Rumanian pogroms to Palestine is being “sympathetically examined” by the British Government, Colonial Undersecretary George H. Hall declared in Commons yesterday. He said there were serious difficulties to overcome now that Rumania was under enemy control and British representatives had been withdrawn, and added he was communicating with the Palestine High Commissioner on the subject.
The statement was made in reply to Col. Josiah Wedgwood, Laborite, who called attention to the Jewish Agency’s request for admission to Palestine of some of the Jews driven out by the Iron Guard excesses.
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison stated, replying to a question by David Adams, that admission of alien Palestine barristers to plead before the Privy Council in appeals from the Palestine Supreme Court would be “considered on their merits” and in light of the circumstances in each case.
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