A second government amendment to the Social Insurance Act, providing pension payments to emigrants who were compelled to leave Austria for political, religious or racial reasons, has been adopted by Parliament after the government eliminated discriminatory restrictive clauses from the draft bill.
The bill originally had excluded from the benefits of the measure emigrants who had returned to Austria in 1951 and 1952 and had remained in the country more than 90 days. This clause was eliminated after strong protest by the Vienna Jewish Community. Only the League of Independents, with 16 seats, and a former, partyless member of the league, opposed the measure. The partyless deputy, Fritz Stueber, denounced the world Jewish organizations, claiming that their demands for compensation for Jewish victims of Nazism were “excessive” and “provocative. “
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