RUSSIA: No Zion

The Central Executive Committee of Soviet Russia pointed last week to another remote spot on the map and invited Jews to move in to form an autonomous Jewish national province. The spot was Biro-Bidjan in farthest Siberia, a wild and fertile land of mountains and rivers, drained by the great Amur and separated only by that river from Manchukuo on the south and west.

Only 300 mi. north of Harbin, 400 mi. northwest of Vladivostok, the new Jewish state was precisely in the hypothetical line of march of the next Russo-Japanese War. Six...

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