/Internat Internat' I claims settlement act/ HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON EUROPE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 1935 AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT 67-498 AUGUST 9, 1966 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS THOMAS E. MORGAN, Pennsylvania, Chairman CLEMENT J. ZABLOCKI, Wisconsin ARMISTEAD I. SELDEN, JR., Alabama L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER, New Jersey LEE H. HAMILTON, Indiana ROY H. McVICKER, Colorado FRANCES P. BOLTON, Ohio E. ROSS ADAIR, Indiana WILLIAM S. MAILLIARD, California J. IRVING WHALLEY, Pennsylvania E. Y. BERRY, South Dakota BOYD CRAWFORD, Staff Administrator MARY, M. LALOS, Staff Assistant DORIS B. MCCRACKEN, Staff Assistant JEAN E. SMITH, Staff Assistant ROBERT J. BOWEN, Clerical Assistant P CONTENTS J 66.2 F661 LIST OF WITNESSES Alberti, Frederic M., attorney at law, New York, N.Y.. Dayton, Paul, Conference of Americans of Central-European Descent.... Fisch, Howard, Brooklyn Jewish Community Council, Brooklyn, N.Y.. 63 53 Maurer, Ely, Assistant Legal Adviser, Department of State.. 32 20 Mondello, Anthony, former Deputy Director, Office of Alien Property, now 32 65 Rubin, Seymour J., attorney at law, Washington, D.C. 58 38 Singman, Julian H., attorney at law, on behalf of Brandeis University---- STATEMENTS AND OTHER MATERIALS SUBMITTED S. 1935, an act to amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, to provide for the timely determination of certain claims of American nationals settled by the United States-Polish Claims Agree- ment of July 16, 1960, and for other purposes, text of__ Department of State letter to chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, dated February 15, 1966, reporting on S. 1935- Department of the Treasury letter to chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, dated February 15, 1966, reporting Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States letter to chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, dated March 1, 1966, reporting on S. 1935- S. 2064, an act to amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, relative to the return of certain alien property interests, Department of Justice letter to chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, dated February 10, 1966, reporting on Department of State letter to chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, dated February 3, 1966, reporting on S. 2064_ Department of State letter to chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, dated February 24, 1960, reporting on S. 2634_. Balkunas, Msgr. John, memorandum in support of a reappraisal of the nationality requirements in the U.S. claim settlement policy and in U.S. foreign and war claims legislation___ Chalaire, Walter, attorney at law, New York, N.Y Czolowski, Tadeusz A. J. E., Post Office Box 16543, Oklahoma City, Okla Dayton, Paul, letter to Hon. Edna F. Kelly, dated August 13, 1966... Doman, Nicholas R., attorney at law, New York, N.Y. Heimowitz, Irwin, counselor at law, New York, N.Y., letter to Hon. Edna F. Kelly, dated August 3, 1966... Hyman, Abraham S., letter to Hon. Edna F. Kelly, dated August 11, 1966. Middleton, Elwyn L., attorney at law, Palm Beach, Fla., letter to Hon. Morse, Hon. F. Bradford, a Representative in Congress from the State of Neuberger, Paul, attorney at law, New York, N.Y. Re, Dr. Edward D., Chairman, U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commis- Sebastian, James R., Jr., attorney at law, Grand Rapids, Mich., letter to Supplemental comments of the Department of State and the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States on a number of 93 INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 2255, Rayburn Building, Hon. Edna F. Kelly (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mrs. KELLY. The subcommittee will please come to order. We are meeting this morning to receive testimony in open session on S. 1935 and S. 2064, bills proposing to amend the International Claims Settlement Act, as amended. S. 1935 is an omnibus claims bill which pertains to the Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, Rumanian, and Yugoslav claims programs. The bulk of the provisions embodied in this legislation has been recommended by the executive branch. Without objection, I will place in the record at this point the text of S. 1935, together with the text of such communications as the Committee on Foreign Affairs has received from the executive branch relating to this measure. (The documents referred to follow :) [S. 1935, 89th Cong., 1st sess.] AN ACT To amend the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, to provide for the timely determination of certain claims of American nationals settled by the United States-Polish Claims Agreement of July 16, 1960, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, is further amended as follows: (1) Subsection (f) of section 4, title I, is hereby amended to read as follows: "(f) No remuneration on account of services rendered on behalf of any claimant in connection with any claim filed with the Commission under this title shall exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to any award certified under the provisions of this title, on account of such claim. Any agreement to the contrary shall be unlawful and void. Whoever, in the United States or elsewhere, demands or receives, on account of services so rendered, any remuneration in excess of the maximum permitted by this section, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or both." (2) Section 6, title I, is amended by inserting "(a)" after the section number and adding at the end thereof the following subsection: "(b) The Commission shall complete its affairs in connection with the settlement of United States-Polish claims arising under the Polish Claims Agreement of July 16, 1960, not later than March 31, 1968." (3) Subsection (b) of section 7, title I, is amended by inserting "(1)” after the subsection letter, and adding at the end thereof the following paragraphs: "(2) The Secretary of the Treasury shall deduct from the undisbursed balance in the Polish claims fund, created pursuant to section 8, as of the date of enact1 |