Eight thousand British refugees from Egypt, including several hundred Jews, will be able to apply for compensation for property they left in Egypt, as a result of the signing of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement which presumably settles the financial differences that grew out of the Suez campaign in 1956. The pact calls for immediate desequestration of British property seized in Egypt, and for the unfreezing of Egypt’s frozen sterling balances here.
Few Britons, and practically no Jews at all, are expected to avail themselves of that clause in the agreement which provides that Egyptian visas be granted to those who want to return to Egypt. Most of the French Jewish refugees from Egypt, covered by a similar agreement signed last year between France and Egypt, were not granted the promised Egyptian visas. A few Jewish refugees from Egypt in France, who did get visas, refused to avail themselves of the opportunity to go back to Egypt.
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