Word: biro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Last week, speaking at a Manhattan banquet of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ruddy, banjo-eyed Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky skipped lightly across History and Political Philosophy. He quoted Abraham Lincoln as to how often one can fool all & some of the people.* He unearthed the fact that Russia's Empress Catherine II was disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including...
...Said he: "This would not be discreditable if it were true. It happens not to be true. It is enough for me to say that Stalin is not a Jew, nor is Molotov, nor Voroshilov, nor Ordjonikidze, nor Mikoyan." Encouraging the banqueteers to subscribe $350,000 for Biro-Bidjan Jews, he explained that the Soviet's fee of $200 per family for setting up Jewish immigrants in Biro-Bidjan with land and equipment for farming was less than cost...
...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...
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...