(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Smidovich, vicepresident of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, one of the warm supporters of the Jewish colonization work in Russia, returned to Moscow from Crimea following a visit to the Jewish colonies.
The vice president studied conditions in the new settlements.
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