Concrete evidence of the eagerness of Polish Jews to migrate to Palestine was presented today in the form of two truckloads of applications for immigration certificates delivered by the post office to the office of the Palestine bureau here.
One truckload of the petitions was from Jewish artisans and skilled laborers living in provincial towns, while the other represented persons in the city of Warsaw proper. Many of the applicants are persons who have some means of their own, it was declared here.
The fact that the Palestine office is now considering the distribution of the certificates allotted to Poland by the immigration schedule made public last week accounts in large measure for the flood of mail to the bureau. The dire straits of much of the Polish Jewish population and the recently imposed restrictions on both trade and skilled labor have greatly augmented the natural interest in Poland as a Jewish homeland and the demand for immigration certificates is constantly increasing. A similar interest is also being shown in the possibility that the Soviet government may permit Polish Jews to settle in Biro-Bidjan.
A net total of 7,500 certificates permitting immigration to Palestine will be available under the Palestine government’s schedule for the next six months. The Jewish Agency for Palestine had requested more than twice that number upon the strength of a survey of the labor market in Palestine.
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