The British Legation at Bucharest was said by a diplomat just arrived from Rumania to be packed with Jews “pleading to be allowed to accompany” departing Britons. “But even if the Legation gave them visas for Palestine,” the envoy declared, “the Rumanians would refuse to issue passports.”
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