The German reparations agreements were denounced today in Yiddish-language broadcasts from Warsaw as “shameful negotiations for reparations between the Ben Gurion Government, a reactionary clique which calls itself the World Jewish Congress, and the neo-Nazi government of Bonn.” The Communist commentator said that the Germans had no intentions of ever paying these reparations.
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