Radio Salzburg today broadcast an official announcement by the Austrian Government, stating that it was working “incessantly” on the question of restoration of Jewish property “aryanized” by the Nazis.
The statement, which was issued by the Ministry for Safeguarding Property and Economic Planning, referred to apprehension abroad concerning the Government’s delay in announcing measures to compensate the Jews, and added: “Extensive preparatory work has already been done, although it is impossible for an outsider to gauge the difficulties preventing a speedier solution of the problems involved.”
At the last hearing of the Anglo-American inquiry committee here, yesterday, Col. Eberhard Deutsch, U.S. legal officer of the Allied Control Council, testified concerning the restitution of property seized by the Nazis from Jews in Austria. It is understood that action by the Government is being delayed by the failure of the occupation powers to agree on Soviet claims to former German property in this country.
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