London, Sept. 5.
The troubled European situation today threatened to delay the work of the International Refugee Commit" tee which is seeking to find areas in which German and Italian Jews may settle.
Plans for the head of the Committee, Mr. George Rublee, to open ne gotiations with Herr Joachim vu" Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, and Herr Adolf Hitler were delayed because of the impossibility of obtain. ing a hearing from the German leaders during the current crisis.
The Committee seeks the operation of Germany because the present German system of coniiscat: Ing an average of 05 per cent, of the property of departing Jews has com plicated the matter of finding nations to which the Jews will be admitted 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 immigrstion of any German Jews and Chilean authorities are understood to hav? 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 20,000 German Jews annually. Th British Empire, it Is hoped, wilt take annest the same number," ineludine 8,000 in Palestine, 6,000 inthe Unite? Kingdom, 3,000 in Australia, 500 Canada and 1,000 each in Kenya, New Zealand and Rhodesia. Another thousand will be scattered in other British colonies, it is hoped.
The Committee desires the absor?- tion of 20,000 Jews annually in South America, but Argentina, Brazil Pett and Paraguay have not yet indicate? their attitude. The question was be lieved to depend on how much mone the Jews could bring with them into those countries—United Press.
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