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Soviet Russia's contribution to the problem of what to do with the world's spare Jews is to transplant them to virgin soil in the Soviet Republic of Biro-Bidjan, insulating the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. In the event of Russo-Japanese hostilities Biro-Bidjan will be "the Jewish Belgium," and smart Bolsheviks count on world publicity for "Japanese Atrocities" in Biro-Bidjan...
...Troy, he joined Fox. By 1930 he had lost his job, most of his money and his wife, who divorced him. Director Korda whisked back to Berlin, then Paris; found a job at Paramount's Joinville studio. Two years later, he summoned his old friend Author Lajos Biro to help him promote a few thousand francs. With a smart young film salesman named Stephen Pallos and Brother Vincent Korda they formed the enterprise that presently developed into London Film Productions...
...Biro-Bidjan is an enormously valuable property. Japan would like it. The Russian high command is determined to hold, colonize and develop it, possibly as a great metallurgical centre. Russia moved rapidly to survey the whole vast, 9,920,000-acre territory, forced the population up from 35,000 in 1928 to 50,000, founded two newspapers, one of them in Yiddish, made Yiddish the official language, organized collectives, state farms, village reading rooms and an agricultural college...
...building a Jewish theatre and new schools. But the Japanese were near, the winters were long and old Jews remembered it as Russia's Devil's Island whither the Tsars sent Jews and terrorists before the Revolution. Soon European Jews heard the rumor that on the day Biro-Bidjan was declared a Jewish territory a Siberian tiger ate the only policeman in the region...
Last week the Central Executive Committee promoted Biro-Bidjan from a territory to a Jewish Autonomous Region with one representative in the Soviet Council of Nationalities. It further promised that when the Jewish population (now about 8,000) reaches 30.000, Biro-Bidjan will become an autonomous republic with five representatives in the Council of Nationalities. Said Boris I. Trotsky, vice-chairman of the Government's committee for putting Jews on the land: "This has nothing in common with Zionism. We do not propose to create a state for all the Jews in the world...