The lengthy negotiations between Great Britain and West Germany, about a possible, lump-sum payment by the Germans to cover illegal detention of British nationals in wartime concentration camps conducted by the Nazi regime, will be resumed tomorrow, it was announced by the Foreign Office.
The announcement came in reply to an inquiry by a Conservative member of the House of Commons, Aery Neave. He had asked not only about the status of the negotiations but also about the number of British nationals to be considered for German compensation.
A Foreign Office spokesman said that the talks, suspended Iast October, would get under way again tomorrow but that the British and Germans have not yet agreed on the categories of war sufferers to be included in the pending compensation pact. The German Government, he said, had made it clear that it would recognize claims by Britons persecuted for their political ideas or for reasons of race, faith or ideology. But other categories and the exact numbers have not yet been determined, the Foreign Office spokesman stated.
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