The British Administration of the Protectorate of Aden has not accepted responsibility for the payment of compensation to the victims of last year’s anti-Jewish riots in Aden, Lt, Col, David Rees-Williams, British Undersecretary for Colonies, today told Commons.
The Protectorate’s present policy of offering assistance through loans and grants is all that the administration will undertake, he added, Rees-Williams declared that financial assistance has been offered for the rebuilding of several schools, but that the Jewish Emergency Committee of Aden had not yet submitted plans or estimates of the costs involved. He also said that no special provisions had been made for the rebuilding and recapping of synagogues destroyed in the pogrom.
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