The refusal of Comzet, Government commission for Jewish land settlement, so far to approve a 1938 plan for the ORT was interpreted today as indicating the possibility that the organization for Jewish vocational retraining may be asked to discontinue its activities in the U.S.S.R. this year.
Official circles here said the ORT was really a foreign organization, affiliated with institutions and societies abroad which carried out their activities in a different fashion than the ORT in Soviet Russia. Although the Soviet Government recognized the beneficent character of ORT work among collective farmers and villagers, this work is now largely carried on by the Soviet authorities, and the usefulness of ORT work in Russia no longer exists, it was stated.
The ORT report for the past year states the society spent 6,000,000 million rubles, chiefly for introducing new trades among collectives.
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