Argentine Migration Director Santiago Peralta’s statement on Wednesday, in which he said Argentina would admit 1,000 Norwegian quislings and soldiers from General Wladislaw Anders’ Polish Army, was attacked today in an editorial in the New York Times, headed “Fascism with Nazi Trimmings.”
At the same time Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, president of the American Federation for Polish Jews, said that “no other interpretation could be put on Peralta’s statement but that Argentina is closing its doors to the suffering Jewish refugees of
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