The Foreign Ministry of Argentina this week notified the Hias-Ica office there that the decree promulgated by the former President of the Republic allowing the entry into Argentina of 1,000 Jewish refugee children from France has been confirmed by the new President.
A cable received today by the Hias-Ica office in New York from its committee in Buenos Aires says that the Foreign Ministry at the same time emphasized that the decree will remain in force until the end of this year.
Dr. Saenz Brione, chief of the Consular Department of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, also informed the Hias-Ica office in Buenos Aires that the Argentina ambassador in Vichy has intervened for the second time with the French authorities, in order to obtain exit visas for these children. According to the latest information, the children in question are sheltered in OSE homes in the vicinity of PAU, Nice and Lyon.
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