Intervention by United States and Allied representatives with the Austrian Government against the reported revival of anti-Semitism in that country, is strongly urged in a memorandum submitted to Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, now attending the conference of Foreign Ministers in Paris, and to the State Department, it was announced today by Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee.
The memorandum, submitted by the Committee, calls attention to "the precarious situation of the surviving Jewish victims of Nazi oppression in Austria; the revival and threatening spread of anti-Semitism in that country, the lack of any practical measures on the part of Austrian authorities to remedy the situation, the practices of Austrian civil servants resulting in the nullification of the constitutional law for the return of "aryanized" property, and recent outbursts of anti-Semitic rowdyism." It requests that the U.S. member of the Allied Control Council initiate measures for remedial action.
If only a part of Nazi-confiscated Jewish properties were restored, the Jews of Austria could easily be cared for, the memorandum states, pointing out that despite promises of remedial action by the Austrian Government, no concrete action has been taken to return property confiscated from Jews.
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