Three hundred Jewish families in the Fiume district, who became Italian citizens after its annexation subsequent to D’Annunzio’s occupation but who have been deprived of their citizenship under a recent decree, appealed to the Interior Ministry today for clarification of their status. To date, the Ministry has refused to exempt them from the decree. Since the families have lived in Fiume since before 1919, they are not affected by the decree ordering expulsion of all foreign Jews from Italy by March. 12. However, their position is anomolous because they are unable to earn a livelihood as a consequence of the anti-Jewish legislation and are unable to emigrate because they have been rendered “stateless.”
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