Return of Confiscated Property: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on S. 854 [and Others] to Amend the Trading with the Enemy Act and S. 3114 and S. 3115 to Transfer the Office of Alien Property Custodian from the Department of Justice to the Department of State, and for Other Purposes

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