The State Department said today that no such figures had been given out as published in today’s New York Post, which quoted an unnamed “official of the State Department visa section” as disclosing that 18,000 to 20,000 Austrian refugees would be able to qualify for entrance into the United states this year under the German quota. The State Department described the story as “peculiar.”
The Post, in a Washington dispatch under the signature of Charles Malcolmson, also said that to date 38,000 Austrians had filed visa applications with American consuls, and it quoted State Department spokesmen as declaring that advices from Vienna indicated that 150,000 others desired to follow suit.
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