- Headline
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Reich Asked to Limit Refugees
- Sub-Headline
- 1,000 Unwanted Exiles Wander to Caribbean Ports-Some Denied Havens
- Publication Date
- Tuesday, May 30, 1939
- Historical Event
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Jewish Refugees Desperately Seek Safe Harbor
This database includes 1,676 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 4
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- WASHINGTON, May 30 ( A.P.)— While three transatlantic ships sought today to discharge more than 1,000 unwanted German refugees at Caribbean ports, word reached here that the intergovernmental committee for refugees in London had requested the Reich to exercise stricter control over their departure.
The committee asked Nazi officials not to let refugees leave unless it was certain they would be permitted to land in the country of destination.
From New York came word that representatives of Jewish organizations expected to fly to Cuba to confer with President Laredo Bru about 927 refugees aboard the liner San Luis at Havana.
The ship arrived Saturday with 943 refugees. According to information reaching the state department, only sixteen of them have the necessary papers with which to land.
American representatives hoped to induce Cuban authorities to let the refugees land in Cuba and then go to the Isle of Pines to live.
Meantime, the British liner Orduna was en route from Havana to Panama and Chile hoping to disembark seventy-two refugees whom the Cuban authorities would not permit to land after forty-eight were disembarked.
The French liner, Flanders, was en route to Vera Cruz, Mexico, with 180 refugees after having landed thirty-two in Havana.
The refugees who were disembarked in Cuba had not only the necessary permits, but the Cuban government as a guaranty[sic] they would not become public charges.
Officials here are keenly interested in the situation, because thousands of German refugees are in Cuba on the Cuban government's understanding that they will be able to get visas for emigration to the United States.
This is not an understanding with the United States, and the likelihood is that many of the refugees will have to remain in Cuba for several years before getting on the United States quota. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Nicole P.
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