Further information concerning the status of the self-appointed investigator of the Jewish situation in Roumania is given in a statement by the American Jewish Congress. It appears that Colonel Lytton G. Ament, who permitted the impression to go forth that he is acting as an official of the United States Government, went to Roumania as the guest of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie.
Announcement to this effect appeared in Roumanian papers and in a number of American papers, including the New York “Sun” of March 11, the Fall River “Globe” of March 25 and the Duluth “Herald” of March 22.
Colonel Ament is a former relief worker in Roumania and official of the United States Veterans Bureau. He has lately been “investigating” conditions affecting the Jews in Bessarabia and giving out statements exonerating the Roumanian government from any blame in the persecution of the Jews in that country. The Washington representative of the American Jewish Congress having inquired into the matter, found that he was not representing any department of the United States Government and on the other hand acting purely in the interests of Roumania. The American Jewish Congress recently made public a statement to this effect.
Colonel Ament and his bride, the former Mrs. Edward Russel Thomas of New York, are spending their honeymoon as the guests of King Ferdinand and Queen Maric, the announcements in the papers stated.
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