Approving appropriations for August of $5,435,000 for assistance activities in behalf of distressed Jews abroad, the Joint Distribution Committee announced during the week-end that its total allocations for the first eight months of 1947, have reached $54,158,000.
This sum is the largest provided in any similar period since the Committee’s founding in 1914, and is $16,000,000 more than was allocated by the JDC in the first eight months of last year, almost reaching the $58,516,000 spent by the Committee in all of 1946.
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