Kurt R. Grossman, of the Jewish Agency, who recently completed a study trip as a representative of the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany, declared on his return here today that implementation of the indemnification program by the anticipated date of March 31, 1963 is impossible unless processing is simplified and the handling of the program is imbued with a “new spirit of dispatch and devotion.”
Mr. Grossman, whose six-week visit to Germany included calls at Frankfurt, Bonn, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hannover, Bremen, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart and Munich, asserted that many of the officials with whom he had conferred agreed with him that basic reforms are necessary. “The processing of claims is too much a matter of paragraphs, and the fact that it should be the restitution of a great moral debt is overlooked,” Mr. Grossman said. His itinerary included talks with high German officials in charge of the program, leaders of Jewish communities, representatives of persecutes, and officials of the United Restitution Organization.
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