Secretary of State Dean Rusk approached West German Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder in support of the claim by Yugoslavia for compensation for Yugoslav victims of Nazism, a Labor Member of Parliament revealed today in the House of Commons.
Deputy A.E. Oram asked Robert Mathew, the Parliamentary Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether he knew about the approach and whether he would associate the British Government with it. Mr. Mathew replied he had seen reports “of a message sent by Dean Rusk to Dr. Schroeder” but that he had “no precise details” of the content of the message.
He added that the question of compensation was a matter for negotiation of the Yugoslav and West German Governments and that he did not believe that intervention by the British Government “would be helpful.”
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