The group of “hard core” Jewish refugees from China which arrived at Naples on the International Refugee Organization vessel Anna Salen last week-end included the last of some 5,200 such refugees from various countries when the Israel Government accepted under an agreement with the I.R.O., Donald Kingsley, I.R.O. director-general, announced here today. Mr. Kingsley added that the I.R.O. agreed to pay $3,500,000 to Israel toward the cost of care for the “hard core” refugees.
In a letter to Israel representative Adler-Rudel, Mr. Kingsley declared: “I wish to express my deep personal appreciation for the great humanitarian contribution which your government so generously made to the solution of this distressing problem.” The Israel representative, in turn, thanked the I.R.O. for the arrangements it made to transport the ill and aged Jews from China.
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