President. this is a bill to permit. under the Trading With the Enemy Act. the return of property. which has been vested thereunder. to aliens who acquired such property by gift. devise. request. or inheritance from an American citizen. upon a showing that such person was never a member of the Nazi Party. The purpose of the bill is to do away with certain inequities now patent in existing law. As an example the committee have before it the case of a young man who immigrated from Germany shortly before World War II intending to become a good American and then bring his mother to this country. He served hon orably in our armed forces. and while alive he took out National Service life insurance designating his mother as beneficiary. After he was killed in action fighting for the United States. the Enemy Property Custodian seized the proceeds of his GI insurance and now the mother is prohibited from benefiting from her sons munificence. even to the extent of receiving the rebated premiums.
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