A spokesman for the Conference of Jewish Claims Against Germany declared here today that some progress has been made in the negotiations with the West German delegation on the question of centralizing the legislation in Germany on reparations and indemnification for Jewish victims of Nazism, but that the talks are going on very slowly.
“There is no likelihood for any swift conclusion of the talks, “he stated. “Every point must be thoroughly discussed, and although many points have been agreed upon, they are not yet drawn up on the final form.”
The spokesman, Jerome Jacobson, added that the Conference will not consider the offer of $107,000,000 reparations in goods made by West Germany to the Jewish groups outside of Israel until the legislative program is settled. He emphasized that the Israeli delegation at The Hague will do nothing towards signing the Israel-German reparations pact until an understanding is reached between the Conference and the Germans.
A two-man delegation, representing the German Templars, arrived here today to ask the West German delegation to press the Templars’ claim for 30,000,000 pounds from the Israel Government as indemnification for their property which they said had been handed over to Israel by British trustees.
The West German delegation here has not yet decided what its attitude will be toward the Templars’ claim, but a West German spokesman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that there was little prospect of pressing the Templars’ claim. The present discussions, he said, were solely concerned with Israel’s claims on behalf of the Jewish victims of Nazism.
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