The British Government, and its White Paper policy of restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine, is blamed by the press here today for the fact that tens of thousands of Jews who could have been rescued from Hungary, had Palestine visas been available, are now trapped and exposed to massacre by the Nazis.
The influential Hebrew newspaper Davar reports that the Hungarian authorities were willing to permit the emigration of Jews from their country. “But what was the use of Hungary’s opening its gates, when the gates, when the gates of Palestine remained closed?” the paper asks.
Other Hebrew newspapers, complaining bitterly over the lost opportunity to save thousands of Jews from Hungary, vigorously demand that efforts be made even now to rescue those who can still be saved. At present, there are approximately 20,000 Hungarian Jews in Palestine, many of them occupying leading positions in the Hebrew University, in Jewish national institutions, as well as in trade and in industry.
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