867N.55/166: Telegram
The Consul General at Jerusalem (Wadsworth) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 15—10:18 a.m.]
My telegram April 7, 3 p.m. By an order made under the right of prescription granted him in section 5 (a) of the Immigration Ordinance as amended April 6, the High Commissioner on April 11 promulgated for the current month an immigration schedule which provides for the issuance of immigration certificates in approximately the same number as during the last semester.
A supplementary notice by the Department of Migration fixes at 780 the number of certificates to be issued to Jewish immigrants in the restricted categories (among which students are now included). Only the category of wives and minor children remains unrestricted and the number of certificates to be issued therein during the month is expected to bring the total Jewish to 1000.
An explanatory notice published in the Official Gazette of April 12 concludes “it is further notified that His Majesty’s Government will take into account the immigration permitted on immigration [certificates] granted during April in their consideration of future policy for immigration in the light of the recent London conferences”.