JEWS SENT TO GERMANY

Chronicle (Levin), 23 August 1947, Page 5

JEWS SENT TO GERMANY

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Request To U.N. To Prevent , Disembarkation

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Received Saturday, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 22. British transports at tlie port of Pori: de Bouc, with Jewish refugees ( aboard, weighed anchor at 5.20 p.m. (G.M.T.) toaay. lt is reported tnat none of the Jews aboard the three ships disembarked. A Foreign Otlice spokesman said the vessels would sail for Hamburg. The Jewish National executive in j Paris has sent a request to the , United States, France and Russia to take action to prevent the^disembarking of the Jews in Germany. It asked them to act through tne Aliied Control Commission for Germany to stop the Jews "being interned in new concentration camps in a country where the Jewish people were the victims of the greatest tragedy in history." » Vaad Leumi (the Jewish National "Council) in Jerusalem has sent a cable to the Secretary-General of United Nations, Mr. Trygve Lie, requesting the intervention of United Nations to prevent the shipment of the Port de Bouc Jews to Germany. A British Foreign Office spokesman said the United States, Soviet and France would be quite within their right in discussing at- the Aliied Control Council in Berlin Britain's decision to send the Jews to Germany, but Britain would not be legally bound to accept even a majority view about the matter.