Denouncing pro-Austrian propaganda in the United States purporting to create the impression that Jews in Austria are being fairly treated, Arthur D. Greenleigh, who has just returned from a mission to that country for the American Jewish Committee, issued a statement today in which he made the following charges:
“1. S.S. officers and other Nazis are still occupying apartments in Vienna belonging to Jews while the former owners are homeless and obliged to live in displaced persons camps. 2. Nothing tangible has been done to return Jewish properties and other assets to the few Jews who survived the Nazi terror and have returned to Vienna. 3. Anti-Semitism is rempant in Austria, with a recent bloody anti-Semitic riot at the University of Vienna taking on the aspect of a full-fledged exhibition in the best Nazi tradition with parades through the city, placards and beatings of innosent people.”
“Government functionaries,” Mr. Greenleigh said, “are openly hostile to Jews. Threats are increasing against the few Jews who are trickling back to Austria and attempting to reestablish their place in the community life. The adviser on Jewish affairs to the Austrian Government, a Dr. Ludwig, is a netorious anti-Samits.”
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