Fears that the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine, which completed hearings here yesterday, secured a “false impression of the situation of the Jews in Austria,” was expressed today by David Brill, president of the Vienna Jewish Community Council.
Brill told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent that from the questions put to him during his appearance before the committee, he got the impression that the members wished to convince Viennese Jews that they should remain in Austria.
He said that when he wished to give details concerning the Government’s dilatory attitude towards restoration of Jewish property, he was halted by the chairman. Brill said that he encountered the same obstacles when he attempted to give detailed evidence of the anti-Semitic attitude of civil servants.
He also charged that the committee seemed over-impressed by Chancellor Figl’s promise that the Government would help Jews – a promise, Brill said, which had been made many times, but never implemented. None of the Jewish requests, such as representation in the Ministry of Property Control, or partial restitution for community property in advance, so that relief needs may be met, have been granted, he stressed.
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