Foreign Jews May Be Allowed to Settle in Jewish Territory; Heated Debate Develops Between Communists and Non-Partisans on Jewish Republic Proposal; Yevsektzia Suppressing National Elements of Colonization Movement; Attitude to Zionism Discussed (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The prospects of the creation of a Jewish Republic within the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, resting on the Jewish agricultural colonies, occupied the attention of the Jewish land settlement conference in session here.
Replying to the address delivered yesterday by Michael Kalinin, president of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, Dr. Jochelman, one of the leaders of the former Jewish Territorial Organization, who is representing the London Committee to aid the Jewish Colonization in Russia, asked for information concerning the proposed “Jewish territory.” He also asked the question whether Jews from foreign countries will be allowed to enter Russia and to settle in these colonies. Mr. Merejin, leader of the Yevsektzia. Jewish section of the Communist party, replied that such questions will have to be decided in principle by the Council on Labor and Defense. However, judging from experience, individual groups of foreign Jews might be allowed to enter and settle on the land in Russia, he said.
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