Following a special investigation, the Soviet State Bank today advised the correspondent of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that no official means are available for American relatives to send funds to Jews in the town of Botosani and other parts of liberated Rumania, temporarily held by the Russian Army. Facilities do not exist for even the nearest branches of the Soviet State Bank to deliver such funds to these sections of Rumania, it was explained.
The belief, however, was expressed in private circles here that the Soviet State Bank may cooperate with American Jewish organizations should they be disposed to make arrangements under which their relief funds would be sent to the Soviet State Bank in Chernovitz, capital of Bukovina, earmarked for the Jewish Community Council in Botosani. The Botosani council would probably face no difficulties in sending one of its members to Chernovitz to receive the money from the Soviet State Bank in Rumanian war lei issued by the Soviet military command.
It is also possible, it was pointed out, that the Soviet State Bank in Moscow may be willing to send a special official from Moscow to deliver the funds to Botosani, if requested to do so by the American Jewish groups. In this case the official could also deliver money to individuals.
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