The American Embassy in Paris is investigating the detention by French authorities of Rabbi Korff, a State Department spokesman said today.
An appeal to the State Department for protection of his son was made in a message sent to Secretary of State Marshall by Rabbi Jacob I. Korff, father of the detained man, according to a statement issued in Boston by Rabbi Korff. The State Department spokesman said he did not know whether the message had been received by the Department, but that both the father and brother of Rabbi Baruch Korff had been in touch with Department officials by phone, and the Embassy in Paris is endeavoring to obtain the facts in the case.
In the meantime, the Department spokesman said, the Embassy is under standing instructions to afford him all possible assistance, including legal counsel.
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