The Governments of the United States, Britain and France are not opposed to the Jewish claims against Germany, but no reply has yet been received by Israel from the Soviet Government, a Jewish Agency spokesman told a press conference here today.
The spokesman, I. Klinov, denied reports published in the press here that Dr. Nahum Goldmann, co-chairman of the Jewish Agency, allegedly met with Chancellor Conrad Adenauer of West Germany. He emphasized that no representative of the Jewish Agency met with any representative of the Bonn Government.
Mr. Klinov revealed that the government of the German province of Hesse has already consented to pay 25,000,000 marks on account towards its share of reparations to the Jews. A third of this sum will go to the Joint Distribution Committee and two-thirds to the Jewish Agency, he said.
The left-wing Mapam Party today issued a declaration protesting any negotiations with “neo-Nazi Germany” on indemnification. The declaration demands the return of all Jewish property looted by the Nazis, not merely indemnification.
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