The repatriation of Polish citizens, including Jews, from the Soviet Union ended yesterday, the New York Times reported today in a cable from Warsaw. Among the repatriates who came back to Poland since November, 1956,–when the repatriation pact between the Soviet Union and Poland was signed–were 14, 000 Jews.
Pointing out that the Polish Government has been permitting her own Jewish nationals to emigrate to Israel, but not the repatriated Jews, the New York Times cable says: “Soviet and Arab leaders reportedly have made it clear that they resented Poland’s being a stop on the way to Israel for repatriated Jews. The repatriated Jews have found it difficult to leave for Israel. The hope that with the end of the repatriation agreement the Polish Government will be able to relax restrictions is not spoken of much, but it is there.”
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