The United States Government is urged to make representations hastening United Nations action for the restoration of Nazi-looted property to Jewish victims, in an eight-point program made public today by the American Jewish Committee. In cases where the looted property has disappeared, the Committee program urges compensation to the victims. The Committee’s program is as follows:
1. Immediate and full restitution of all proparty rights and interests should be made to the Jewish victims of Axis persecution.
2. Administrative obstaoles to immediate effective restitution should be removed and appropriate administrative measures should be enacted to facilitate such restitution.
3. The Economic and Secial Council of the United Nations should include among its responsibilities such restitution to victims of the Axis Powers.
4. Just compensation should be made for property rights and interests which cannot be restored.
5. Unclaimed or heirless property rights and interests of Jewish victims of the Axis, including organizations and communities, should be transferred to appropriate Jewish organizations for use in relief, rehabilitation, amigration and resettlement.
6. Effective measures should be taken to facilitate the transfer abroad of property rights and interests, or their proceeds, balonging to such victims who reside abroad. Unclaimed or heirless property rights and interests in foreign countries, or their proceeds, of such viotims should be transferred to appropriate Jewish organizations for use in relief, rehabilitation, emigration and resettlement.
7. In the light of the inadequacy of previous allocations from German reparations for use in relief, rehabilitation, emigration and resettlement, any further decision on German reparations should provide for an adequate additional share in such reparations for such uses.
8. Representations should be made by the Government of the United States to the governments involved, pointing out American interest in, and the need of, speedy and satisfactory restitution and compensation.
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