In an interview with the official organ La Nacion, Foreign Minister Abraham Ortega today declared that his signature had been forged on immigration permits for European refugees in many instances and announced that the case had been handed over to the Justice Department for further investigation.
All Chilean newspapers published an official list of prominent persons who asked for entry visas for European Jews. Among the names were many Government officials, several Cabinet members, 20 deputies, eight senators, the Archbishop of Santiago, the Chilean Ambassador in England, and Mauricio Weinstein, president of HIAS-ICA in Chile, who denied several days ago charges by anti-Semitic newspapers that the HIAS-ICA “monopolized” immigration into Chile and was guilty of irregularities.
The rightist paper El Chileno, in an article captioned “No More Refugees,” quoted Government officials as saying that in future not a single refugee would be permitted to enter Chile.
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