ENTRY INTO BRITAIN
JEWISH LEADER’S PROPOSAL APPEAL TO AMERICAN EMBASSY (Rec. 9 p.m.) ROME, Jan. 1. The vice-president of the American League for Free Palestine, Professor Johan Smertenko, said that if the immigration authorities detained him when he reached Britain as a result of the British Government’s steps to exclude him from England, he would appeal to the United States Embassy in London as an American citizen. Replying to a question in the House of Commons on December 19, Mr G. H. Oliver (Parliamentary Under-secretary to the Home Office) said that “ the Government has taken steps to, exclude the vice-president of the American League for Free Palestine, Professor Johan Smertenko, from England in future.” Mr Oliver later added that “ this foreign ” visitor left the country on December 18. Th<j fact that the Government had taken steps to exclude him made it quite clear that he was not regarded as a desirable visitor.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26350, 3 January 1947, Page 5
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