David Ben-Gurion, chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, arrived here over the week-end to discuss with Jewish leaders and government officials the prospects for emigration to Palestine of Bulgarian Jews. He was greeted at the frontier station of Svilengrad by Jewish delegations from Sofia and Plovdiv, as well as by a representative of the Ministry of Propaganda.
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