Newspapers here published reports from Berlin today disclosing that five of Italy’s leading anti-Semites had spent ten days in Germany as honored guests of the Reich.
At a send-off given them Thursday at Nuremburg by Julius Streicher, Germany’s Number One anti-Semite, one of the Italians is quoted as having said:
“Italy, too, will manage to subdue the Jews.”
The speaker was described as Signor Cianetti, Mussolini’s Labor Chief for Industries. His statement was made in reply to an address by Streicher, in which he reportedly said that “the Jewish question must come to Italy, too.”
The Rome correspondent of the Morning Post, in a dispatch on the reported Cianetti declaration, said it found no echo in Rome. He added that, although a minority anti-Semitic movement exists in North Italy it never formed part of Mussolini’s policy.
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