Austria’s new chancellor, Dr. Alfons Gorbach, announced today in Parliament that Austrian-West German talks on restitution to victims of the Nazi era in Austria would be held in May or June.
Dr. Gorbach said that the talks would have an especially important meaning for future Austrian policy. The talks will deal with the size of the West German contribution to an Austrian fund to improve restitution payments. West Germany has agreed in principle to make such a contribution.
(In Stockholm, representatives of 300 former Austrian citizens, most of them Jews, held a meeting yesterday to protest what they termed discrimination in restitution payments by the Austrian Government. Stefan Adler, president of the organization, said that claims in Sweden for restitution included both pensions and cash. He said members sent 100 letters last year to the Austrian Government in pressing their claims.)
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