David Ben Gurion, head of the Jewish Agency’s Palestine executive, today promised the agency’s cooperation in facilitating Jewish emigration from Austria to the Holy Land. He described the steps to be taken to a delegation from the Association of Austrian Immigrants which called on him to demand that the agency aid refugee immigration. The Hebrew daily, Haboker, yesterday attacked the Jewish Agency as neglecting the Austrian Jews.
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