A “mass flight of displaced Jews from the British zone of Germany to the U.S. zone” was reported here today by David Raymond, foreign editor of Reynolds News, following a visit to Bavaria. He said that the movement of the Jews began as a result of Britain’s continued refusal to extend recognition to Israel.
Raymond reported that the DP’s, after “so many years of statelessness, receive a moral uplift when they receive visas for their own country from. Israeli representative Dr. Chaim Hoffman, who is recognized by the American Military Government.”
(In Berlin, a British spokesman revealed that the Jews forcibly returned to Hamburg last year from the ill-fated Exodus have vanished from their camp “for an unknown destination.” On the night of August 10, the spokesman said, “a large movement out of the camp–near Oldenburg–occurred. It is not known by what means either this final disappearance or any of the other moves took place,” he said.)
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