An agreement between the government of the Union of Russian Soviet Republics and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee regarding the activities of the latter in helping Russian Jews to settle on the land was signed here yesterday.
According to the stipulations of the agreement, which contains thirty-eight paragraphs and touches upon all the questions in connection with the Jewish colonization work in Russia, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is given considerable independence in this work. Exclusive control of the sums invested in the colonization work is assured the Joint Distribution Committee.
The Joint Distribution Committee, termed the Agricultural Joint in the agreement, is obliged to expend the sum of $400,000 during the first year of the colonization work. The Joint Distribution Committee is also obliged to submit a report of its activities to the Soviet Government quarterly upon the request of the government.
The property of the Joint Distribution Committee in Soviet Russia is declared by the agreement to be immune from confiscation, nationalization and alienation. The staff which supervises the Jewish colonization work is to enjoy all the rights and privileges of state officials, according to the agreement.
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