During the 38 years of its existence, the Joint Distribution Committee has spent $140,000,000 to assist needy Jews in Soviet Russia and the satellite countries where it has now been compelled to cease its activities as a result of Moscow’s campaign against the organization, it was reported today by Moses A. Leavitt, JDC executive vice-chairman.
Figures made public by Mr. Leavitt revealed that the JDC had spent $27,500,000 in Soviet Russia from the Russian Revolution to 1938. At the outset of World War I in 1914 it aided 600,000 to 700,000 Jewish refugees in Russia. Soviet Russia was the first to stop the agency’s operations in 1938, followed by discontinuance off its activities in Poland in December, 1949; Rumania, 1949; Bulgaria, May, 1949, and Czechoslovakia several days ago.
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