Spanish Ambassador. Angel Sagaz said today he could not believe that a Spanish consular official in Stockholm had inserted the word “Judio” (Jew) in the passport of Romeo Rothschild, diplomat and author. Rothschild showed his marked passport to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent in Vienna.
“I cannot believe it,” Sagaz told the JTA through an embassy press aide, Jaime Albarracin-Foz. He said, “Nobody would do it in a Spanish consulate. I have never heard of an anti-Semitic thing like that. If this did happen, the fellow would be fired.”
Asked whether the Spanish government would investigate the incident, Albarracin-Foz asked for a copy of the JTA report. He promised that he would take up the matter with the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid.
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