The State Department has ordered the U.S. embassy in Jordan to help an American Jew whose request the Embassy had turned down because he was Jewish, Sen. Herbert H. Lehman’s office announced here today.
Elliott L. Biskind of New York had complained to Sen. Lehman that the Embassy refused recently to try to obtain for him information on how to go about registering for property owned by him and his brothers in the Old City of Jerusalem, now in Jordanian hands. The Embassy told Mr. Biskind it did not “deem it appropriate” to aid Jews in view of the “particularly violent anti-Jewish feeling prevailing at the present time in Jordan.”
Sen. Lehman took the matter to the State Department and his office said the Department “has now replied, advising us that the Embassy at Amman has been directed to approach the officials of Jordan and to try to obtain from them the necessary information” requested by Mr. Biskind. The State Department said it would notify Sen-Lehman when a reply is received from Amman.
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