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Legal Position of Refugees in Europe Subject of Memorandum to Roosevelt

October 15, 1939
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A long memorandum on the legal position of refugees and stateless persons who are refused residence rights in European countries has been submitted to President Roosevelt and delegates to next week’s White House conference on refugees by the Committee for the Defense of Rights of the Jews in Central and Eastern Europe in Paris, it was announced today. Dr. Boris Gourevitch and the Rev. Henry Smith Leiper submitted the memorandum on behalf of the committee.

The committee also delegated Senator Maurice Dormann, former French Cabinet minister to seek from the Polish Government the annulment of the Polish law of March, 1939, which deprived thousands of Polish Jews abroad of their citizenship.

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