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(e) it will not be possible to make an additional re-allocation until the present re-allocation is nearing completion. Thus if the Agency desire to find room in Palestine for Jews from other countries than those mentioned in (a) above or for more Jews from any particular country there will be correspondingly- fewer places for Jews from the remaining countries.

44. At the end of May, 1945, the Secretary of State authorized a further allocation of 3,000 immigration certificates.

45. The immigration account at the end of December, 1945, was as follows :-

Certificates available (subject to economic absorptive capacity) under the policy declared in Command Paper 6019 of May, 1939 :

(a) a quota of 10,000 a year for five years beginning on the 1st April, 1939

(b) supplementary refugee certificates

50,000 25,000 75,000

Immigration authorities granted between the 1st April, 1939 and the 31st March, 1944,

about 67,000*

Actual arrivals 1st April, 1939, to 31st December, 1945 -

Legal immigrants

Illégal immigrants (provisional)

54,727 20,804

75,081

Ba1ance of account on 1st January, 1946, 75,000 minus 75,031

---,031

The account reveals that the provision for Jewish immigration under the White Paper was exhausted by the end of 1945. Arrangements have been made to continue Jewish immigration at a rate not exceeding 1,500 immigrants a month.
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* The number of wives and children of immigrants is not known with certainty.

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