The authorities today cancelled deportation orders against a number of German-Jewish refugee families under an ordinance revising all alien residence permits.
Jewish leaders were assured that the measures against foreigners had no anti-Semitic motives. The Portuguese Jewish Committee for Refugees is intervening for cancellation of more deportation orders.
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