Commission En Route to Dutch Guiana
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Commission En Route to Dutch Guiana

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AMSTERDAM (Mar. 28)

A commission of experts named by the International Jewish Colonization Society left today for a three-month survey of refugee settlement possibilities in Dutch Guiana. The commission comprises Prof. Nicholas H. Swellengrebel, Amsterdam expert in tropical biology; Dr. Vink, former government agriculture inspector, and Solomon Dyk, Jewish agriculturist of Tel Aviv.

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