While the selection of Jewish settlers for Biro-Bidjan is more carefully made now than previously, nevertheless doubtful and criminal elements still manage to smuggle themselves through, A. Edelman, secretary of the Ozet, which is supervising the Jewish colonization in Biro-Bidjan, to Biro-Bidjan and to eliminate the undesirable ones, complains in an article in the Moscow “Emes.”
Mr. Edelman criticizes the failure of the Soviet authorities to scru###nize the records of all applicants
Sir Osmond d’Avigdor Goldsmid, president of the Jewish Colonization Association and chairman of the Council of the Jewish Agency, arrived yesterday on the Majestic. With him was Louis Oungre, director of the J.C.A. in Paris. Both will confer with American-Jewish leaders here on refugee problems. On the same boat was Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron of Baltimore, Md., returning from a European trip.
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