The Joint Distribution Committee today announced that its September budget amounts to $5,576,000. This brings the total for the first nine months of 1948 to nearly $54,000,000.
The largest single item for September is $1,400,000 for emigration purposes, ##ses A. Leavitt, executive vice-chairman of the J.D.C., reported. So far this year, he said, more than 40,000 displaced Jews from Europe and Shanghai have been helped reach new homes in Israel, U.S., Canada, Latin America and elsewhere.
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