Mr. Chairman. this amendment costs no money. This amendment will delay distribution of the funds available under the Czechoslovakia Claims Program. Under this program. approximately $2.4 million is available to naturalized United States citizens for losses resulting from property confiscated by the Czechoslovakian Government prior to 1958. I understand that the Treasury Department plans to distribute the final $2.4 million by August of this year. Elizabeth Palansky Surak and her deceased husband Matthew. both naturals of the United States. owned a tannery in Czechoslovakia from 1925 through the 1950s. Following the end of World War II. the Communist government confiscated the Suraks tannery without due compensation.
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