The Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization today received from the Governor of Surinam (Dutch Guiana) an official communication welcoming the settlement of 30,000 Jews in Surinam, and expressing satistion that the League has appointed a commission of experts to start a detailed, ## the-spot study.
“The coming of this commission,” the Governor declared, “is in conformity with the decisions of the Legislative Council of Surinam and of the Netherlands Government to admit 30,000 Jews into Surinam for colonization. The task of this commission will be to prepare, in cooperation with the Surinam authorities, a plan covering all details of the contemplated colonization. The conditions of the colonization will be decided by all parties concerned, after the plan of the expert commission will have been laid before them.”
The commission consists of A.M. Fisher of Honolulu, civil engineer who constructed a highway in Surinam during the war; Ray C. Roberts, soil correlator ## the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. Atherton Lee, an expert in tropical agriculture, former head of the U.S. Agricultural Station in Puerto Rico; Dr. G. Giglioli, expert on tropical medicine, residing in British Guiana; and Harry G. Clement, an economist working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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