A complete ban on further immigration of refugees from Europe to Cuba was decreed last Saturday by President Batista in an order made public here today.
The order follows the President’s decree legalizing the status of the refugees already in this country and granting the right to apply for Cuban citizenship even to those who entered the country on tourist or transit visas.
Under the order published today no person is to be admitted into Cubs if he was born in any of the Axis countries, or in the territories now occupied by the Axis powers. Visas already issued by the Cuban consulates to emigrants of this category are automatically invalidated. This will affect several hundred Jewish refugees who have secured Cuban visas in Europe and are now in Spain and Portugal waiting to sail, it was stated here.
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