A Jewish Labor Committee delegation, headed by Adolph Held, president, was received today by French Premier Henri Queuille. The Premier told the delegation–which is en route to Israel to survey conditions there–that France will always remain the country where the oppressed will have the right to find asylum” and will continue to be “the land of rescue for those who must save themselves from annihilation.”
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