Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, met here today with President Gustaf Heinemann and Chancellor Willy Brandt and told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency afterwards that he thought compensation negotiations with West Germany “would be concluded in a satisfactory manner” in 1972. Dr. Goldmann said his 40-minute conversation with Brandt was devoted to the question of reparations for East European Jews arriving in the West. Goldmann also met with Foreign Minister Walter Scheel who, he said, assured him that he wanted relations between Germans and Jews to be as good “as possible” and that he would do “whatever he can” to achieve this. A government spokesman told the JTA that Dr. Goldmann’s meetings with West German leaders were conducted “in a very friendly atmosphere” and that they dealt with “matters of joint interest.”
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