The government of the Union of South Africa has agreed to allow contingents of Jewish refugee children en route from Portugal to Palestine – via the Cape of Good Hope – to stay temporarily in South Africa, it was reported today at a meeting of the executive committee of the Youth Alyiah organization, which had requested such permission.
Although the majority of the 1,000 immigration certificates alloted by the Jewish Agency to refugee children in France cannot be sent to France, as a result of the Nazi occupation of the entire country, it is hoped that some of the children for whom the certificates were assigned succeeded in escaping into Spain or Portugal before the Germen troops entered the unoccupied zone, it was roported at the meeting.
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