The informal committee to settle Jews in Russia, which was formed Tuesday at the Ritz-Carlton, by a group of Jewish leaders, was characterized yesterday by former Congressman William W. Cohen, temporary chairman, as something “out of which I expect real developments to come.”
Mr. Cohen described the gathering to the Jewish Daily Bulletin as an informal conference at which the problems of Jewish immigration into Russia was discussed. Lord Dudley Marley, deputy speaker of the British House of Lords, was guest of honor. He spoke to those present of his impression of Biro-Bidjan, which he recently visited. He declared that 1,000 Jews could be settled there within a year, and that the number could be increased gradually as the project developed.
The object of the committee, Mr. Cohen explained, is to help settle Jews in Biro-Bidjan, the proposed autonomous Jewish Soviet republic, or elsewhere in Russia. Other Jewish leaders present at the meeting included Felix M. Warburg, William N. Cohen and Louis Wiley. The new group will cooperate with Lord Marley’s World Committee for the Relief of Victims of German Fascism, it was explained.
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