Unsatisfactory handling of individual indemnification claims is proving increasingly injurious to German interests in the United States, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has been told. The report was made by Ernst Majonica, Christian Democrat Bundestag deputy, who recently returned from a State Department-sponsored eight-week tour of the United States, during which he visited German consulates in all parts of the country.
Herr Majonica, an attorney and leader of the younger elements in the Christian Democratic Union, told of increasing uneasiness in American Jewish circles over the way individual cases were dragged out, legalistic pettifogging and general ill will with which former German Jews were met.
The deputy said that he had filed a similar report with Heinrich von Brentano, Parliamentary leader of his party, and he urged that Parliament take steps to speed the indemnification program for individual claimants.
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