“Leave Palestine to the Arabs and let the Jews go to Biro-Bidjan,” autonomous Jewish Soviet region, to avoid further massacres, declared the newspaper Le Journal today. It intimated that Jewish immigration was extending to French-mandated Syria and might provoke disorders there.
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