Elie Dijour, secretary of the HIAS-ICA Emigration Association, arrived here yesterday with his wife from Lisbon aboard the American Export liner Excalibur. Dijour left Paris before the German occupation and escaped from unoccupied France to Lisbon via Spain.
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