The British Government will set aside a sum up to 250,000 pounds ($700,000) which it receives from German enemy property for charitable purposes intended to relieve the suffering of racial, religious and political victims of Nazism, Peter Thorneycroft, president of the Board of Trade declared in Parliament today.
Mr. Thorneycroft, in a report on the final disposition of German enemy property, said that it was too late to consider individual applications for the return of assets by German nationals who suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The British Government planned to make “some provision to help cases of real suffering caused by this persecution.” All sums accruing from enemy property over 250,000 pounds would revert to the British Exchequer, he revealed.
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