A demand that the Austrian Government speed its repeated pledges to compensate victims of Nazi persecution in this country, regardless of a pending agreement with Germany to help finance such payments, was made here today in resolutions adopted by a number of leading Austrian organizations of political persecutees.
The resolutions pointed out that no compensation has been voted yet, although 15 years have passed since the liberation of Austria from Nazi domination, and five years have elapsed since Austria promised in its State Treaty to-adopt such legislation. The Treaty had been signed with the Big Four occupying powers–the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and France.
Both parties of the Austrian Government coalition, the Peoples party and the Socialist party, have pledged repeatedly to pass restitution legislation, but no such legislation has been passed as yet.
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