THE DETRO IT JEW ISH NEWS—Friday, Fe bruary 5, 1960-8
810,08E000 Reclamation Allocations
Voted by Claims Against Germany Parley
AMSTERDAM, (JTA)—A
budget of $10,081.000 for 1960
disbursements was approved at
the closing session of the board
of directors of the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany.
The budget, as proposed by
Jacob Blaustein, senior vice-
president, and approved by the
board, includes an allocation of
$7,781.241 for relief and re-
habilitation of victims of Naz-
ism; and $1,852,350 for recon-
struction of cultural and:educa-
tional institutions destroyed
during the Nazi regime.
In the relief and rehabilita-
tion portion of the budget are
included grants to organizations
aiding needy victims of Nazism
in South American and Austra-
lia; and allocations to organiza-
tions in 30 countries aiding
about 125,000 beneficiaries. The
cultural and educational grants
will aid the reconstruction of
Jewish schools, talmudic semin-
aries and academies, including
also appropriations for scholar-
ships, research, fellowships, doc-
umentation centers, and events
commemorating the catastrophes
for which the Nazis were re-
sponsible.
Blaustein warned the con-
ference that Jewish communi-
ties throughout the world
must plan to shoulder their
own welfare needs entirely in
the near future, since the
monies allocated to the con-
ference from West German
reparation funds will termin-
ate in 1963.
This year. as in the past,
Blaustein reported, there were
about 400 applications for
funds, totaling requests from
'Jewish organizations in 30 coun-
tries for more than $20,000,000.
Only about $50.000,000 more
remains to be paid to the con-
ference in the next five years,
Blaustein pointed out. He ex-
pressed the hope that the Jew-
ish organizations around the
world, serving the needy vic-
tims of Nazism "will manage,
during the coming half-decade,
to bridge the gap between local
income and expenditures."
Moses A. Leavitt, treasurer of
the Claims Conference, reported
that the conference disbursed
$10,122,239 in 1959. Of the total,
he said, $5,850,000 went toward
a program of capital invest-
ments for buildings in Jewish
communities around the world.
The conference distributed
$1,795,000 for cultural and edu-
cational reconstruction, includ-
, ing $124,000 for research and
International Bnai Brith Council
Decides on Offices in Six Lands
AMSTERDAM, (JTA) — The
Bnai Brith International Coun-
cil, at its first meeting here,
announced plans for the estab-
lishment of six offices for re-
search in contemporary Jewish
affairs and for the promotion of
greater cultural interchange be-
tween Jewish communities in
various parts of the world.
Philip M. Klutznick, chairman
of the International Council,
said that except for a New York
office which will have primary
responsibility for Bnai Brith
activity as a Jewish organiza-
tion affiliated with the United
Nations, the other five offices
will conduct negotiations with
the leaders of the Jewish com-
munities for the proposed pro-
gram.
It was indicated that three of
the offices would be in Europe,
one in Israel and the fifth in
Latin America. It was recom-
mended that a disbursement of
$840,000 be made from the
reparations funds the organiza-
tion received last year from
West Germany.
The funds will be used prim-
arily for Jewish educational and
cultural programs. The largest
single allocation of 5425,000
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, will be used in Israel. Pro-
grams in Latin America and
Europe will each receive
$100,000. Programs in Great
Britain and Ireland will get
$60,000 and $20,000 will be ex-
' pended in Australia.
I WW1 the exception of Israel,
the funds will be matched on
a dollar for dollar. basis with
; money raised by local Bnai
Brith sources.
The Council, in a resolution,
. denounced the Arab boycott as
a "policy of aggression against
Israel arid economic warfare
against Jews throughout the
world." The resolution followed
a review of boycott activities
by Label A. Katz, president of
Bnai Brith. He said that the
Arab states had been encour-
aged in use of the boycott by
the "nonchalant attitude of
many persons and governments"
toward it.
The resolution urged that
"governments and business en-
terprises resist the boycott and
denounce its immoral interna-
tional behavior." The boycott,
the resolution stated. violated
all principles of amity among,
members of the family of na-
tions.
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U. S., German Groups Agree
to Step Up Anti-Nazi Education
AMSTERDAM. (JTA) — A sponsibility" in West Germany
program for intensifying West
German public school educa-
tional activities so that German
youth may understand "the his-
torical truth about the horrors
which the Nazi racist policies
brought to the world." was pro-
posed in a joint statement is-
sued by the Jewish Labor Com-
mittee of the United States and
the Social Democratic Party of
West Germany.
The program was agreed
upon after a conference here
between Adolph Held, chairman
of the JLC, and Dr. Adolf
Arndt, who represented the ex-
ecutive board of the Social Dem-
ocratic Party in Germany. After
discussing the recent outbreaks
of anti-Semitic manifestations
in Germany. Held and Dr. Arndt
agreed on a program, calling
for:
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1. The stepping up of anti-
Nazi educational activities in
West Germany's elementary and
high schools; 2. Removal from
posts of "important political re-'
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commemoration projects.
Included among the capital
investment projects on which
Mr. Leavitt reported were com-
munity center in Brussels, Bel-
gium; a community center,
synagogue and homes for the
aged in Denn- ark; community
centers in Grenoble, Lyons and
Strasbourg, France; a mental
hospital, synagogue and com-
munity center in Holland; a
home for the aged in Florence,
Italy; and a community center
and synagogue in Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the conference,
expressed gratification over
the acceleration of German
settlement of indemnification
claims during the second half
of 1959. But Dr. Goldmann
expressed "serious doubt" as
to whether the indemnifica-
tion debt to Jewish victims of
Nazism will be repaid in full
by the March 31, 1963, dead-
line for such completion, set
by the West German law on
the subject.
Dr. Goldmann commended
the speed with which West_ Ger-
many is meeting its reparations
obligations to Israel. Last year,
for the seventh year in succes-
sion. Dr. Goldman said, Ger-
many has met its schedule of
reparations payments to Israel
as agreed upon in 1952. During
1959, he reported, Israel re-
ceived from Germany goods and
services valued at $60,714,085,
bringing the amount since that
program was launched, to a
total valued at $452,380,152.
Indemnification payments
made during the past decade,
the conference president re-
ported, have reached a total of
$1,660,411,428 as of September
1959. He expressed on behalf
of the Conference, "profound
disappointment" over the fail-
ure of the German states to
take steps toward the indemni-
fication of victims. of Nazism
from Rumania and Hungary. At
stake, the figures show, are the
claims of some 40,000 claimants
from Romania and about 1,000
from Hungary.
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