Demonstrations in various western capitals against the West German Government for restitution and compensation to Hungarian and Polish Jews were predicted here yesterday by a spokesman for those Jewries.
Jack Winocour of London, a spokesman for the Association of Hungarian and Polish Jews, told an impromptu meeting with West German, British and American correspondents that meetings would be held with West German diplomats in New York, London and probably Paris next week to protest the restrictions in pending new West German legislation for Nazi victims.
He said that the objections were to pending legislation to set up a $150, 000, 000 fund to meet indemnification claims of some 75,000 to 100, 000 Jews who left Poland and Hungary after October 1953 when the deadline for filing claims became effective. The bills, which were passed on a first reading in the Bundestag, the tower house of the West German Parliament, on November 15, 1963, are under study by Parliamentary committees. Floor action on either measure is not expected before April.
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