The state department’s technical personnel at Vienna has been increased to facilitate handling of visa applications to the united states, secretary Cordell Hull today informed congressman Charles A. Buckley of new York, in reply to a letter urging leniency in consideration of applications by persons seeking to leave Austria for reasons of “race or religion.”
“It is believed,” Mr. Hull wrote, “that these arrangements will permit the consular officers at Vienna to extend every possible assistance to visa applicants within the framework of our immigration laws and regulations.”
Asked at his press conference whether the state department is interceding for Dr. Sigmund Freud and other Austrians, Mr. Hull declared he would not undertake going into minor phases of the Austrian situation without going into the entire matter, which he was not in a position to do now.
A young Jewish pioneer was killed and another slightly wounded in a midnight attack by an arab band of 50 upon a camp of 80 youths near Rasel Nakura, northernmost point on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. The victim was Jehuda Brener, 22, of Affuleh. After a brisk battle the raiders were beaten off, leaving one of their number dead.
The campers had just taken possession of a Jewish national fund site in the holy land’s most dangerous sector and were preparing a new settlement to be called Hanuta. Following the attack, the pioneers this morning resumed road building and other activities.
A bomb exploded near the Anglo-Palestine bank in Haifa among crowds of home-bound workers, wounding two Arabs.
A police post near the Lebanese frontier was raided by terrorists last night and rifles belonging to three arab Ghaffir (special policemen) were stolen. Two arab suspects were arrested.
Pamphlets bearing the signature of the outlawed Arab Supreme committee, urging Arabs to boycott the pales tine partition commission which is scheduled to arrive next month, were distributed here.
Elijahu Mizrachi, 21, was sentenced by the Jerusalem army court to a year in jail for possess on of a revolver. He had pleaded guilty.
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