The Comzet rejected the offer of the London Jewish Federation of an annual $100,000 donation for declassed Russian Jews on the grounds of the anti-Soviet stand of the Federation’s head, Rabbi Hertz, and that relief activities would be used for anti-Soviet agitation.
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