The mediation committee of the West German Parliament, set up to resolve disputes over legislation between the two Parliamentary chambers, decided today to adhere to the original decision of the lower house to approve expansion of a special hardship fund for victims of Nazism.
The Bundestag, the lower house, voted in May to expand from 700,000,000 marks $175,000,000) to 1,200,000,000 marks ($300,000,000) a fund set up to compensate victims who were unable to file claims by an October 1953 deadline because they were then in Iron Curtain countries. However, the Bundesrat, the upper chamber in which the West German states are represented, rejected the proposed increase by a large majority. The deadlock was then submitted to the mediation committee.
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