(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The decision of the Comzet, the governmental department for settling Jews on the land, to set aside the Bureya region for an extensive Jewish colonization undertaking there was confirmed by the All Soviet Committee on Transmigration.
Kalinin, president of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who is the chairman of the Transmigrants Committee, the highest authority on questions of transmigration, confirmed the decision.
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