The Central Jewish Committee of Surinam today issued a formal statement here denying a report disseminated in the United States that local Jewish leaders object to a leaflet distributed here calling for support of a plan for the admission of 30,000 Jews from Europe to Surinam. The plan has been advanced by the Freeland League which maintains its headquarters in New York.
The statement also denied that the leaflet was unsigned. It claimed that the leaflet was issued on behalf of “a well-known local committee” whose name was mentioned in the text. “No Jewish leaders have objected to the contents of the leaflet,” the statement, which was signed by the chairman and the secretary of the Central Jewish Committee, emphasized.
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