31.   The banks say they have uncovered only a few million dollars in unclaimed Jewish assets.

32.   The commission will also investigate allegations that Switzerland laundered Nazi gold, misappropriated Jewish assets and helped leading Nazis send funds to South America.

33.   The French government appointed a committee Friday charged with searching for Jewish assets that were illegally confiscated by the French state during World War II.

34.   The Jewish Agency director, speaking at a panel discussion on confiscated Jewish assets, also questioned the neutrality of Switzerland during the war.

35.   The orphans oppose the stance of French Jewish community officials who seek restitution of wartime Jewish assets still held in French banks to create a Holocaust education center.

36.   The miserable results so far show how justified the reproach is that the banks waited until the problem of Jewish assets went away by itself.

37.   The program also was to track stolen art and Jewish assets, but the focus was on pursuing the killers, their associates and the booty.

38.   The story broke less than a week after the French government released a report detailing the systematic plundering of Jewish assets under the Vichy government.

39.   The Swiss government Friday revealed that it had found secret letters in its archives detailing the accord with Poland to transfer Jewish assets.

40.   There is also evidence that the Swiss struck post-war deals with Poland and other Communist governments to use unclaimed Jewish assets as compensation for war losses.