The Rumanian Government has not responded to a request by the Board of Deputies of British Jews that Rumanian Jews who had families abroad be allowed to emigrate in order to rejoin them, it was reported here today to a meeting of the Board. The approach to Bucharest was made through the Rumanian Ambassador in London.
The report noted that there were a considerable number of such families, some of whose members had gone to Israel while the remainder stayed in Rumania. The request for a change in the Rumanian emigration policy was made on humanitarian grounds.
Barnett Janner, president of the Board, reporting on Israel’s “act of faith” in evacuating the Gaza and Akaba positions, declared that British Jews look to their government and to non-Jewish Britons sympathetic to Israel’s cause “to take the initiative in bringing about a peaceful settlement of Israel-Arab relations.”
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