A cable received today from his European headquarters by Isaac L. Asofsky, executive director of the HIAS, disclosed that Polish Jews who are fleeing from Poland and who are now stranded in Czechoslovakia because of the refusal of the Polish Consulate in Prague to give them passports, will soon receive passports enabling them to emigrate to other countries.
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