Formation of an organization to arrange the settlement of European Jews in the Harrar area of Ethiopia and in adjoining British Somaliland was announced here today. The group, which calls itself the Council for an Autonomous Jewish Province in Harrar, wants to settle Jewish refugees from Europe in Harrar immediately after the war “under conditions of political autonomy.”
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