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of Eastern Jews into Austria Halts As Hungary Tightens Border Controls

December 17, 1947
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The influx into Austria of Jews from Eastern ### has ### stopped as a result of tightened border controls on the Hun### Australia and Hungarian-Rumanian frontiers. Hungarian police have orders to ### all Rumanian Jews to their homeland.

The first arrivals from Rumania in three weeks reached here this week, ##eluding the Hungarian police. The 300 men, women and children, in two groups, ##ed that others who had left Rumania with them had been arrested in Budapest ##turned home.Establishment of a committee composed of government repressentatives and Jewish leaders to setter outstanding problems such as restitution and rehabilitation ##rged here by Ernest Stassny, a representative of the World Jewish Congress, at ##er celebrating the establishment of a Jewish state. Government and U.S. Army ##sentatives attended.

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