A memorandum drawn up by top officials of the Chancellory for the guidance of Foreign Minister Karl Gruber, who heads the Austrian delegation at the Council of Foreign Ministers in Moscow, states that the Government connot accept a joint Russian-British-French suggestion that a stipulation be included in the peace treaty under which full compensation would be paid by Austria for the property seized by the Nazis on racial or religious grounds, it has been learned authoritatively.
The French-Russian-British proposal, which was projected at the meeting of the Foreign Ministers’ deputies in London last month, opposos the U.S. proposal which provides merely for the return of confiscated property, regardless of its present condition. The memorandum says that acceptance of this clause would set up Jews and other racial and religious persecutees as a privileged group.
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