The Soviet Government has agreed to admit 2,000 Polish Jewish families and 500 individuals into the autonomous Jewish territory of Biro-Bidjan during 1937, Lord Marley, deputy speaker of the British House of Lords, said last night.
He addressed a farewell dinner of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, of which he is honorary president, William W. Cohen, president, said he had received a telephone message from Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky that his Government would permit the immigration to begin in February or early March. Lord Marley will sail on the Normandie Saturday for England.
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