Neither the HIAS-ICA Emigration Association nor other organizations assisting Jewish emigration from Germany have been able to verify whether Jews are permitted to leave the Reich since direct inquiry to Jewish organizations in Germany is impossible.
The HIAS-ICA stated that it had received no information on this from the Hilfsvereinder Juden in Deutschland, Reich Jewish relief organization, through which the HIAS-ICA is working, and added that the lack of information did not exclude the possibility that Jews were no longer given passports in Berlin with the same ease as hitherto was the case.
At the same time, those Jews who have already obtained passports but do not have fare or visas to enter other countries will, according to the HIAS-ICA, be able to leave the Reich only if provided with the proper visas and funds for transportation.
(Information, coinciding with the return from Berlin of Vice-Director Robert T. Pell of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee, had been received in Paris (JTA NEWS APRIL 16) that the tense international situation had prompted the Nazi authorities suddenly to reverse its policy on Jewish emigration.)
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