Two Polish Jews charged with having agitated against immigration to Palestine and in favor of immigration to Bureya, Siberia, set aside by the Soviet authorities for Jewish colonization, were acquitted today by a local court.
The court held that while agitation for colonization in Bureya was contrary to the interests of Palestine, it was not in any way harmful to the interests of Poland.
Bureya, in the Far Eastern region of Siberia, in which the Soviet authorities hope to establish an autonomous Jewish republic, has been the center of a controversy between the Zionists who denounce it as an attempt to turn the interests of the Jews from Palestine, and the Jewish Communist advocates of colonization within the Soviet Union.
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