Argentine President Arture Frondizi asked the United Hias Service today to present a memorandum outlining proposals for the admission of Jewish refugees to this country, and indicated sympathetic consideration.
The President made his recommendation during an audience he granted Carlos Israel, United Hias Service president, who is currently touring Latin America studying immigration possibilities. Mr. Israel was accompanied by a delegation of local Jewish leaders and the president was flanked by one of his top advisers, Interior Ministry Under Secretary David Blejer, a Jew.
Mr. Israel thanked Dr. Frondizi for his statements pledging that there would be no discrimination against Jewish refugees as prospective immigrants. He also told the President of Brazil’s acceptance of 3, 000 Jewish refugees–most of them from Egypt and Hungary.
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