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a NY 100-62117 "Excuse me for taking the liberty to write you about . private matters but you are the person who can help me in this difficult situation. "The trouble is that the State Department gives no exit permit for my spouse Mrs. Gittel Hudel M.D., who is working and living in the Willard Parker Hospital, New York 9, N.Y. My spouse presented her application in March 1944 and until now has received no direct anewer, in- spite of intervention of the Ambagsadors of Checoslovakia and Costa Rica; only a lawyer who asked the State Department for a resolution in this matter has received the notice that a new application can be presented on the beginning of the present year. *I will inform you about syself; I am 45 years old, a Polish citizen, a Jew, of Polish nationality; doctcr in mathematics, actuary and economist; From 1918 to 1930 I studied and worked _ a8 actuary in Prague, Checoslovakia; from 1930 to 1938 I lived and worked as actuary in Warsaw and moved in 1936 to Prague. )) After Munich I left Checoslovakie for Bolivia, In Bolivia I | worked 43 years as Director of the Social Security Department of the Ministry of Labor; simultaneously I was technical adviser of the Ministry of Finances. In April 1943 I received the im migration permit to the 0.5.4. My wife moved in August to Hew York and I had decided to do it some months later, after finish- ing my work in Bolivia. In the meantime, during the parliamen—- — tary discussion about the well known Catavi massacre, I was [accused and jailed as commnist, but quickly released by order iof the High Court, which sentenced in ‘habeas corpus." Imme- diately I was reinstituted, by order of the president General Ponaranga, in my job in the Ministry of Labor, where I worked until my move to Costa Rica in March 1944, In the sesntine the State Department cancelled my immigration permit and the Inter national Labor Office arranged my actual job in Costa Rica. Here I am working as technical adviser and actuary of the Social Se- curity Board, as teclmical adviser of the Finacial Commission of the Congress and as professor of the University, In October last T nwenantat ¢a the Ctata Nanawtmant an annifnatinan nw 6man wht 4 PPUSGNVOU VY WIS OleLS woparUbcny afl appustaus0l 10n VPaisgay visa to Montreal in order to participate in the 2nd International Conference of Actuaries, organized by the International Labor Office. In spite of the intervention of the Costarican Ambassador, the