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Jewish Claims Group to Meet East Germans on Reparations Issue

By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
'Claims by Jewish victims of
Nazi persecution against the
German Democratic Repub-
lic, will be discussed between
the conference on Jewish
Material Claims Against Ger-
many and an East German
"private organization"
known as the Committee of
Anti-Fascist Resistance
Fighters, State Department
officials disclosed here Wed-
nesday.
The claims conference, the
officials said, will take the
initiative in communication
with the committee and the
two groups will then negoti-
ate at a place they will de-
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
10,000-tree forest was named
Monday in memory of Gili
Gilad Barzilay, a soldier who
fell in battle on the Golan
Heights during the Yom
Kippur War.
The forest was planted
near here by the family of
S'gt. Gilad. The dedication
ceremony took place in the
presence of his family,
friends and leaders in the
Boy Scouts, a movement in
which Gilad was active be-
fore he joined the army.
Twenty-five- trees in the
forest will be named for
other soldiers in his unit who
fell in battles.

time and place are expected
to begin shortly.
The disclosure followed im-
mediately after the U.S. and
Communist East Germany
signed an agreement at the
State Department establish-
ing diplomatic relations be-
tween them and the station-
ing of ambassadors in Wash-
ington and East Berlin. How-
ever, the "special legal sta-
tus of the Berlin area" is not
affected by the agreement,
the officials said.
The entire Berlin area is
under four-power occupation
by the U.S., Britain, France
and the Soviet Union since
the end of World War II.
According to the U.S. offi-
cials, the Conference on Jew-

ish Material Claims Against
Germany will seek to negoti-
ate a lump sum settlement
of claims for Jewish victims
or their heirs all over the
world, including • those re-
siding in the U.S. 'and Is-
rael.
The East German govern-
ment, they said, refused to
deal with the conference
since it is a nongovernmental
body, but the GDR agreed
that the "private" East Ger-
man organization would dis-
cuss the claims.
The claims conference,
whose offices are in New
York City, negotiated with
the West German govern-
ment which has paid DM 40
billion (about $15 billion) as
reparations for Jewish vic-
tims of the Nazi Holocaust.
In addition, West Germany
paid Israel in a separate bi-
lateral governmental agree-
ment reached in 1952, a sum
of $712,000,000 in goods and
services over a 12-year per-
iod.
State Department officials
said Wednesday, however,
that the question of payment
by the GDR to Israel had not
arisen during the negotia-

lions% Israel, they said, had
no expectation of payment
and the GDR certainly has
no expectation of paying. Is-
rael and the GDR have no
diplqmatic relations.
East Germany has con-
sistently taken the position
that it is not responsible for
the persecution by the Nazis
and has no connection with
the old German regime.
American officials pointed
out, however, that the enor-
mity of the crimes against
Jews and others is so great
that refusal by the East Ger-
mans to make reparations
and ignore the claims would
not be acceptable to the U.S.
In negotiating their agree-
ment, the East Germans and
the Americans spent most of
their time discussing the re-
parations elements the U.S.
officials said.
The East Germans, the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
was informed privately, in-
tend to offer only a token
payment to the JeWish claims
conference to wipe the slate
clean. Their offer of repara-
tions will be more psycholo-
gical than monetary, a high
U.S. authority said.

one Service Restored
to New England Nazis

NEW HAVEN, Conn.
(JTA)—A federal judge has
approved an agreement to
restore to a group of Bridge-
port Nazis a telephone serv-
ice they used to disseminate
anti-Semitic and anti-black
messages on recorded tapes,
pending a ruling on the con-
stitutionality of the state law
under which they lost that
service.
Judge Robert Zampano ap-
proved the agreement, pre-
viously reached by attorneys
for both sides, during a
show cause hearing on a
complaint by the National
Socialist White People's
Party.
The Nazis had filed suit
contending that an order to
the Southern New England
Telephone Co. canceling the
service abridged their free-
dom of the press under the
First Amendment. They also
sought $15,000 in damages.
Damages were denied.
The cancellation effort was
started by Attorney General
Robert Killian and brought
a request from Bridgeport
Police Chief Joseph Walsh to
the utility to stop service on
grounds that broadcasting
or transmitting defamatory
statements about a race vio-
lates Connecticut's group
slander law.

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Judge Zampano ordered
Walsh to notify the utility to
restore the service to the
Nazis. The judge also waived
the statute of limitations, a
ruling which would appar-
ently make the Nazis liable
to criminal prosecution if a
three-judge panel, to be con-
vened this fall, upholds the
constitutionality of the state
law.
The suit by the Nazis,
under Judge Z.ampano's rul-
ing, will be continued with
Utilities Commission, Walsh
only the Connecticut Public
and Assistant Attorney Gen.
Frederick Neusner as de-
fendants. State's Attorney
Joseph Gormley, Chief Pro-
secutor John Ward and the
utility are no longer listed
as defendants, Judge Zam-
pano ruled.
In a ruling with the court
late August, Neusner 'de-
scribed the recorded mes-
sages as "the most vicious
and depraved forms of ra-
cial and religious abuse."
Neusner contended that the
Nazis' contention their serv-
ice was canceled without due
process was not true. He
said what had been denied
was not regular telephone
service, but only "an ad-
junct service utifted for a
limited purpose, namely ra-
cial and religious abuse."

Israeli Intelligence
Gets New Chief—Sh!

TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Mossad, Israel's top secret
intelligence agency got a new
chief Sunday and his iden-
tity is a top secret.
The changing of the guard
was disclosed only because
of a special farewell recep-
tion attended by Premier
Yitzhak Rabin and senior
military and police officials
for the outgoing Moss ad
chief whose identity was
made public after six years
as head of the agency.
He is Maj. Gen. Zavi Zamir
who was praised by Rabin
for work well done.

