Daniel Mayer, who served as president of the Conference on the status of Soviet Jewry here last September, met today with Sergei Vinogradov, the Soviet Ambassador to France, with whom Mayer discussed the situation of Soviet Jews.
The meeting was officially described as “very friendly and cordial.” Mr. Mayer, who was accompanied by Jacques Nante, a Catholic writer who served as rapporteur for the September conference, drew the Soviet envoy’s attention to the resolutions passed at the conference dealing with discrimination against Jews in the USSR. Mr. Mayer also expressed to the envoy the anxiety felt in liberal groups throughout the world over the situation of Soviet Jews. The possibilities of a visit by Mayer and other leaders to the Soviet Union was raised at today’s meeting.
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