Chancellor Leopold Figl assured Gerhard Riegner of the World Jewish Congress today that the government was prepared to set up a fund of the heirless Jewish property to aid needy Austrian Jews.
The Austrian Chancellor made the premise after Mr. Riegner said that he preferred to see the Austrian Government act on its own initiative instead of letting the W.J.C. renew its claim to the property at the London conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers’ Deputies, en a treaty for Austria. Mr. Riegner recalled that the W.J.C. had submitted a memorandum urging the insertion in an Austrian treaty of safeguards for Jewish rights, when the Council of Foreign Ministers met at Moscow in 1947
Mr. Riegner said that the Jews of the United States could not understand why the few Jewish survivors in Vienna were unable to obtain the return of their pre-Anschlus apartments. The mayor of Vienna promised to meet the demands soon for 500 dwellings for these Jews.
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