The negotiations between the Laneschewitz Matzoth Company and the Am-Deruta Transport Corporation for sending matzoth for Passover into Soviet Russia have fallen through, the J.T.A. is informed by representatives of both organisations.
Dr. Leo Broches, representing Am-Doruta, stated that following representations to the Soviet Government in Moscow, it has found it impossible to withdraw from its original condition that the Maneschewitz Company must guarantee the importation of a minimum og 2,000,000 pounds of matzoth by March 15th, to which the Maneschewitz Company could not agree.
Dr. Lax Maneschewitz, on behalf of the matzoth company, said that the Soviet authorities desired a bond to the amount of between 750,000 dollars and one million dollars, to be placed with them by the Maneschewitz Company as a guarantee that the minimum of 2,000,000 pounds of matzoth would be shipped into the Soviet Union.
In view of the very short period left before the expiration of the time limit and the fact that a number of other organisations have received permission to send matzoth to Soviet Russia, he said, his Company could not undertake to guarantee the minimum sum. The matter will be dropped at present, he added, but will be renewed for the year 1933.
If the agreement had been concluded, one of the provisions would have been a guarantee by the Soviet Government to deliver the matzoth packages to their destinations or else refund the Company the amount involved for their non-delivery.
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