Chase Manhattan Bank and Jewish groups reached an agreement last Friday aimed at settling charges that two of the bank’s branch offices in France froze Jews’ wartime bank accounts before the Nazis ordered them to do so. The agreement calls for an independent probe of the branches’ conduct and possible payments to former Chase customers.
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