U.S. BARS RUSSIAN SEARCH FOR NAZI LOOT IN WEST ZONE
BERLIN, Mar. 6. United States authorities said the.y would reject a Soviet demand to send investigators all over the American zone of Germany to look for Nazi loot. The Soviet Military Governor, Marshal Sokolovsky, made the demand in a letter to the U.S. Military Governor, General L. Clay, in which he condemned the American restitution policies and claimed widespread properties. Marshal Sokolovsky said that out of total property values of about £7,500,000 restored from the United States zone to all countries, Russia received only approximately .09 per cent. An American official said: “The Russians are trying to get fishing expeditions into the American zone. In no case wiP the Russians or anyone else be allowed to go poking their noses around.” The head of the American reparations and restitutions organisation in Germany said there were about 40 wagonloads of Russian property waiting at Bremen for the Russians to send a ship for it.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22889, 8 March 1949, Page 5
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