Unless efforts are made to speed up the processing of individual claims, the German indemnification program will not be completed on schedule in 1963, Prof. Norman Bentwich declared here at a reception marking the tenth anniversary of the United Restitution Office.
Prof. Bentwich said that the Jews were impressed with the fact that the Born Government and its leaders, including President Heuss and Chancellor Adenauer, have placed the foundations of the German restitution program on moral footings. Present at the reception were a number of German Federal and state government leaders.
Organized 10 years ago in Britain by attorneys affiliated with the Council of Jews of Germany, the URO now has offices in 14 countries, in addition to its office in Germany, and is pressing more than 220,000 claims in behalf of 125,000 victims of the Nazis.
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