Mr. Brown Replies on Payment to Nazi Camp Victims.
Mr. George Brown, the Foreign Secretary, told the Commons last night that he saw no reason to think the judgement of the Parliamentary Commissioner, Sir Edmund Compton, was necessarily better than that of all the Ministers who had refused to pay special compensation to the 12 British survivors of Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He had, nevertheless, decided that compensation would be paid on the appropriate basis to all the claimants or, in the case of those who died, to their dependants. "In doing so I am probably being unfair to quite a number of other gallant men who have suffered very badly but who are outside the compensation scheme." The Foreign Secretary was speaking in a debate on the report in which Sir Edmund severely criticised the Foreign Office over the rejection of the man's claims.
Photo Shows: Jubilant victors of the Sachsenhausen affairs - two of the leaders of former prisoners photographed outside the Commons last night - Lt. Col. Jack Churchill and Mr. Sydney Dowse.
Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated 2-2-1958.
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