A plan to settle 48,000 Jewish families on the land within the next five years in different parts of the Soviet Union, was adopted today in its official form by the Comzet, the governmental department for Jewish land settlement.
According to the plan 15,000 will be settle in Crimea, 12,000 in Bira-Bidjan. 11,000 in the Ukraine, 7,000 in White Russia and 3,000 in the Caucasus.
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