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Jewish Organizations in Switzerland Intervene Against Expulsion of Refugees

August 25, 1942
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Jewish organizations here have interceded with the Swiss authorities to rescind the decision expelling to Nazi-occupied France the Jewish refugees who crossed into this country illegally in order to escape deportation by the Nazis to occupied Eastern territories. Negotiations to this effect are still in progress, it is learned.

The possibility that the Swiss Federal Council may reconsider its decision is hinted at in the Liberal newspapers which have protested the expulsions on the ground that they violate the country’s oldest tradition of offering asylum to the persecuted. The protests of the Swiss liberal newspapers have found a wide echo among the entire Swiss population.

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