The suggestion that the 5,000 Jews of the Saar be settled in central and southern France as farmers was made today by Anatol De Monzie, prominent French statesman, in an interview with the Paris press.
M. Monzie declared that the problem of the Saar Jews as well as of other refugees from the Saar should be considered immediately, before it becomes acute. The decline in French agriculture is working the greatest harm to French interests and therefore the Jews and other refugees from the Saar should be given a chance to work on the farms in this country, he pointed out.
The majority of the 276 Saar refugees who entered France today are German Jews who fled from Nazi Germany and settled in the Saar in the hope that the
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