The Moscow Conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers is expected to oppose the inclusion in the peace treaty with Germany of provisions for reparations for Jews, it was learned here today.
All indications point to the fact that the question of compensation for uprooted Jews is likely to be left to each government to deal with individually. The Polish Government, for example, is asking for the restitution of property to Jewish nationals of Poland who lived in Germany before the war, outside of the framework of general reparations.
No government intends to ask for a revision of the schedule of proportional distribution of reparations from Germany as established by the Potsdam and Paris Conferences. The latter granted only $25,000,000 for the rehabilitation of displaced Jews.
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