Restitution of property stripped from Jews by the Nazis and other Jewish demands on Germany will probably not be discussed by the conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers in Moscow next month, but will be referred to a meeting of the ministens’ deputies, which will follow the Moscow parley, Ambassador Robert Murphy, who will be Secretary of State Marshall’s deputy at Moscow, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today.
Murphy, who is political advisor to Lieut. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U.S. military governor of Germany, said that the four-power Allied Control Commission in Berlin is drafting a report for submission to the Moscow meeting, which will cover restitution and other Jewish matters. The report will probably not be ready before the end of this month.
The smaller European powers, including Poland and Czechoslovakia, are preparing memoranda for the Big Four ministers regarding reparations for the confiscated property of their nationals, including Jews.
All economic matters affecting Jewish demands for certain clauses in the treaty with Austria are now before the economic committee of the Big Four and will not come before the deputies until next week. A clause barring discrimination against any citizens on the basic of race and religion has already been approved by the deputies. It is identical with that included in the treaties just signed with the Axis satellites.
(Procedure to be followed by persons wishing to file claims for property in Austria under the recently passed restitution laws will be announced soon by the State Department, it was stated today in Washington. The text of the laws has not yet reached the Department, which is awaiting them before making the necessary announcement.)
The Anglo-Jewish Association here has virtually completed a memorandum for submission to the deputies, covering economic aspects of the Austrian treaty as far as Jews are affected. An official of the AJA said that the organization may send a committee to Moscow, but no final decision has been taken.
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