There is no property restitution law in effect in Germany and there is no immediate prospect that such legislation will be promulgated, a high Military Government source today told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The MG official said that considerable misunderstanding exists in America as a result of the action taken by the Minister-Presidents of the four states in the American zone at a meeting in Stuttgart on March 12. At that time, the German officials approved a measure providing for restitution, but included several provisos, containing the recommendation that the law be extended to all zones.
Top MG authorities assented to this reservation and have decided not to place the law in effect until they can confer with the directors of the French, Soviet and British zones on the possibility of promulgating uniform legislation. However, similar conferences were held more than a year ago without any result, and it was then that the Americans decided to go ahead with drawing up laws for their own zone.
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