While League of Nations High Commissioner fo###an Refugees James G M### was preparing to le### for South America, a ###aw certain to have an ad######ffect on Jewish immigration ###azil went into effect today.
The law, in ###ed six months ago and passed substantially as proposed, provides that immigrants to Brazil be admitted on the basis of two per cent of the total number of immigrants from each country in 1920.
Would-be Jewish immigrants are hard hit by the law, since Jewish emigration from Russia, Poland, Rumania and Germany was particularly small that year.
While the law makes no mention of concessions for refugees driven from their homes by polical or religious persecution, it is thought here that High Commissioner McDonald’s scheme for settling German Jewish refugees in appreciable numbers in South America has received a serious
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