The Union of Italian Jewish Communities is drafting a memorandum to the Italian Foreign Ministry requesting its intervention to prevent the files and administration of the International Tracing Service from being turned over to the Germans after the conclusion of a peace pact between West Germany and the Western Allies.
The memorandum will point out that in effect such an action would violate all principles of law and would place the files of the ITS in the hands of the very party against whom they might logically be used. The memorandum will suggest that either the files, now at Arolson, Germany, be placed under an international commission–including the Allies, Israel and Italy–or be turned over to the International Red Cross.
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