A total of 16,500 immigration certificates have been allocated by the Palestine Government during the last eleven months, it was officially announced here. This figure included 10,456 certificates allotted visaless immigrants after they reached the country.
The Jewish visaless immigrants interned on Cyprus yesterday sent a formal protest to British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech-Jones against the “ridiculously small” immigration quota allotted them. The Palestine Government recently announced that 1,050 internees would be admitted during the next two months.
“We 6,000 Jews, former inmates of German concentration camps, upon whom all the horrors of the Nazi regime were visited and who miraculously survived the war wish to protest the ridiculously small number of certificates allotted to Cyprus,” the statement read. “Bitterness, impatience and tension is running high among us. We are innocent of any crime and do not want to be kept in camps on foreign soil. We appeal to the conscience of His Majesty’s Colonial Secretary that he give the command to bring us to the land of Israel–this is an elementary, human and just demand.”
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