Adolph Held of New York, chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee, arrived here today on invitation from Mayor Willy Brandt to discuss final liberalizations of West German compensation and restitution legislation.
Mr. Held will go from here to Bonn to discuss the problems with officials of the Social Democratic party. One of the principal requests of Jewish organizations is extension of the present October 1953 deadline for filing of claims by victims of Nazism.
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