London, Sept. 5.
The troubled European situation today threatened to delay the work of the International Refugee Committee which is seeking to find areas in which German and Italian Jews may settle.
Plans for the head of the Commiting an average of 95 per cent. of the property of departing Jews has complicated the matter of finding nations to which the Jews will be admitted as immigrants.
Encouraging news came today when the Republic of San Domingo offered to accept a "substantial number" of German Jewish immigrants.
South Africa has indicated that she is unwilling to permit the immigration of any German Jews and Chilean authorities are understood to have ruled secretly that only 50 Jews will be permitted to enter the country each year.
Committee members said today that it was virtually certain that the United States would absorb almost 20000 German Jews annually. The British Empire, it is hoped, will take almost the same number, including 8,000 in Palestine, 6,000 in the United Kingdom, 3,000 in Australia, 500 in Canada and 1,000 each in Kenya, New Zealand and Rhodesia. Another tee, Mr. George Rublee, to open negotiations with Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, and Herr Adolf Hitler were delayed because of the impossibility of obtaining a hearing from the German leaders during the current crisis.
The Committee seeks the cooperation of Germany because the Present German system of confiscate thousand will be scattered in other British colonies, it is hoped.
The Committee desires the absorption of 20000 Jews annually in South America, but Argentina, Brazil Peru and Paraguay have not yet indicated their attitude, The question was be lieved to depend on how much money the Jews could bring with them into those countries—United Press.
A general demand for dollars marked this mornings dealings in the foreign exchange market and, with the British authorities staging only spasmodic intervention, the dollar appreciated in terms of sterling to 482.37 cents, compared with 484.25 cents at the close on Saturday.
While commercial buying is still a factor making for a firm dollar, and international political considerations continue to drive European funds to America, it is increasingly apparent that, since sterling fell below the former parity of 486.66 cents, there has been a sizeable expansion in speculative buying of dollars.
The lethargic manner in which the British Control is countering the strength of the dollar has aroused considerable comment in City circles, and some quarters are wondering whether this reflects a virtual agreement between London and Washington to allow the sterling-dollar rate to find a natural level prior to the signing of the Anglo-American Trade Agreement.—Reuter.
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