Proposal Involves Great Difficulties, Time for Action Has Not Arrived, Rosen Declares in Statement (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The Agro-Joint, the agency of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Russia, is not backing the plan for large Jewish colonization work in Bureya, Siberia, Dr. Joseph Rosen, head of the Agro-Joint, declared in a written statement to the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here.
The plan was formulated by the Comzet, the governmental department for Jewish colonization work, and is being propagated by the Jewish section of the Communist party and the Yiddish Communist dailies, “Stern” of Charkoff and “Emes” of Moscow.
“In all our work,” Dr. Rosen declared in his statement, “we have been placing settlers only in such districts and on such tracts as have been selected and thoroughly investigated by our own agronomists. The Agro-Joint had nothing to do with the selection of the Siberian tract and we are therefore not participating in this project.
“In our opinion the proposition presents very great difficulties and has not yet been sufficiently investigated to be ready for action,” Dr. Rosen declared.
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