(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
An attack on the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee was made today in an editorial in the Yiddish Communist daily, “Emes,” signed by Merezhin, head of the Jewish section of the Communist party.
Under the headline “J. D. C. Must Publish Report,” the editorial demands that the Committee give an account on the following points: First, How much was so far collected in the United States on account of the $25,000,000 United Jewish Campaign; second, how were the collected funds divided among the different countries.
The editorial emphasizes that the criticism is directed not against the Agro-Joint, the agency of the J. D. C. in Russia, but against the Joint Distribution Committee, which, it claims, carried on the United Jewish Campaign under the slogan, “Colonization in Crimea,” but “gives the money to Palestine and other countries.”
Quoting David A. Brown’s alleged statement that the United Jewish Campaign is entirely completed, Merezhin asks “why then has Russia received only $5,000,000 of the $25,000,000? We cannot remain without an answer on this point. Upon this answer, our further negotiations with the J. D. C. depend. The answer is also important at the present time when the Joint Distribution Committee has practically entered into an idea logical bloc with the Zionist Executive,” Merezhin writes.
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