On the first anniversary of the establishment of internment camps on Cyprus for visaless Jews apprehended while trying to enter Palestine, camp committees representing some 16,000 Jews still behind wire fences on the island sent an appeal to the United Nations to find a speedy solution to the Palestine problem, dispatches from the island received here this week-end said. The appeal pointed out that failure to settle the issue was keeping the Jews imprisoned more than two years after the liberation of Europe.
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