840.48 Refugees/6–2644: Telegram
The Consul General at Jerusalem (Pinkerton) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:15 p.m.]
84. Palestine Government has informed Jewish Agency that British passport officer in Spain may grant immigration certificates to refugees in Spain, Portugal, and Tangier up to total 600 principal immigrants, although information has been received from London that Spain has now threatened to stop refugees entering Spain until those already there are removed. Government has declined to make additional allotment for Southern Italy, Yemen, and other safe countries except in unusual individual cases. British passport officer in Turkey continues to have authority to grant Palestine visas to bona fide refugees from occupied countries without referring cases to Jerusalem and with no numerical limitation except White Paper totals. Jewish Agency is pressing hard for certificates for refugees from Yemen now in Aden.