Foreign-Born War Claimants: America's Second-Class Citizens
By U.S. Senator
cepts of citizenship to distin-
We have never recognized in
KENNETH B. KEATING
guish between Americans on this country any concept of which have adopted war claims tionals after they suffered their
programs in behalf of their own original loss. Certainly we in
When is an American citizen the basis of when they hap-
not an American citizen? If pened to become naturalized. second class or junior citizen- nationals have made provision the United States can do no
ship. Even European countries for claimants who became na- less.
one is to judge by certain war
claims legislation which has
been proposed, it is when that
American citizen became nat-
uralized after World War II.
Under such proposals, if an
individual became an American
citizen after the last war, his
government—the United States
-would ignore his claim. He
would be forced to seek redress
through the nation where he
AND - LOAN ASSOCIATION
formerly held citizenship, but
this would be a futile gesture,
especially. in cases of those
_ countries now under Commu-
nist rule.
Last year a bill was approved
in the House of Representatives
for the payment of compensa-
tion - to Americans who suffered
injury or death or who suffered
FINANCIAL STATEMENT AS OF JUNE 30, 1961
property losses in certain areas
as a result of World War
Omitted from this otherwise
salutary proposal were thou-
sands of Americans who were
unable to become U.S. citizens
Cash on 1-kin
until after the war. I have in-
U
nment,
troduced legislation to correct
r Federal Age
this (S.956) as I do..not believe
.
Igations
8,46 ,
the compensation program will
Stock in Feder ._,..!r-
e Loan Bank
2,500,000.00
be fully adequate until provi-
gage Loan Includi F.H.A. and
sion is made to prevent dis-
men sured
crithination against Americans
tgages)...
95,984,221.49
based on the date on whit
counts.
135,126.94
they assumed the duties a
is iden
obligations of citizenship of t
1,348,925.34
or Red ei
free land.
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• I Esta
Since World War II we
48.67
conned thousands of new Am
•rniture, Fi
res, Equi p
cans to - our shores. Large nu
Leasehol Improveme
hers of them suffered ind
Other Assets
scribable privations during- the
war. Many were tortured • and
4,472.53
enslaved and were the victims
of every form of persecution.
Certainly these people who are
now full-fledged Americans
ieJ
have as much claim to • parti-
cipate in the war compensation
Savings Accounts
program as any other segment
.$100,255,811.86
(All Accounts Insured up to $10,000.00)
of American war claimants.
- This turning of our backs on
Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank
4;821,250.00
these new Americans is espe-
Loans in Process
22;68191
cially strange in the light of_
Advance Payments by Borrowers for
other legislation approved last
Insurance and Taxes
year by the Senate Judiciary
2,621,911.90
Committee which would return
Specific Reserves
162,111.26
vested properties to former
Deferred Credits
German and Japanese owners
83,807.52
Other Liabilities
who are now U.S. citizens. In
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17,982.29
other words, Congress proposed
General and Special Reserves
.
7,018,909.79
to compensate former enemy
TOTAL
nationals whose property was
5,004,472.5
vested if they are now citizens.
But former allied nationals,
DIRECTORS
now citizens would be denied
relief. For example, a victim
CHARLES CANVASSER
of the concentration camps who
JOSEPH B. COLTEN
did not come to this country
until after his liberation in
ADOLPH DEUTSCH
1945 -would receive no com-
ALFRED L. DEUTSCH
pensation. Such results cannot
Possibly be justified. In good
CHARLES L. DODGE
conscience we must reject the
STANLEY M. EARP
proposition that American citi-
zenship acquired after one
SAMUEL N. GERSHENSON
type of war loss will justify
NATHAN 1. GOLDIN
current
a return of property but if
rate
acquired after another type of
SAMUEL S. GREENBERG
war loss will bar recovery.
ON ALL SAVINGS
SAMUEL HECHTMAN
It is abhorrent to our con-
AMERICAN SAVINGS
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Urges Arabs Accept
JFK's Refugee Plan
NEW DELHI, (JTA) — The
Hindustan Times urged the Arab
states to accept United States
President John F. Kennedy's .pro-
posals to settle the Arab-Israel
, dispute "in the same spirit in
which the offer was made."
In an editorial commenting on
the proposals, the newspaper ap-
pealed to the Arab states to ac-
cept the existence of Israel term-
ing such acceptance an essential
condition to any settlement. The
editorial praised President Ken-
nedy for taking the initiative in
attempting to settle the dispute,
despite his preoccupation with
other matters.
Evidently annoyed by the pub-
lication o4 the editorial, the New
Delhi representative of the Arab
League described the Kennedy
proposals as "inimical to the
Arabs' fundamental rights and to
their legitimate aspirations."
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