Official circles here today indicated that the West German Government intends to make a concrete offer to Israel on reparations payments approximately one month after the London conference on Germany’s debts is resumed in the middle of May.
The delay in submitting a concrete offer to Israel, it was explained, results from the necessity of the West German Government’s investigating thoroughly its financial ability to pay. Such careful review is only possible when taken in conjunction with the London conference, officials here emphasized.
West Germany’s Minister of Justice Dr. A. Dehler, informed the “Axis Victims League” in New York that a federal indemnification law “will not be passed in the near future,” since it is in tended that the present provincial regulations will remain valid. However, he explained that “an additional federal law has been made part of the legislative program” of the German Government and is being prepared by a special Bundestag committee on reparations. This “frame law” is to make up for the severities in the existing laws, he stated.
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