Chief Rabbi David Prato today expressed to Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano the uneasiness of the Italian Jews over anti-Semitic articles in several Fascist newspapers and received assurances that the Government’s attitude toward the Jews remained unchanged.
Dr. Prato visited Count Ciano after a series of attacks on the Italian Jews in Fascist papers, including Premier Mussolini’s Popolo d’Italia. Count Ciano is the Premier’s son-in-law.
Articles and editorials in Italian newspapers have demanded that the Jews abandon Zionism, which was held antagonistic to Italy because of Great Britain’s control over Palestine. Some papers accused Jews of being linked with “international Communists.”
The latest anti-Jewish attacks were printed this week in La Stampa of Turin, which demands that the Jews merge themselves in the Italian nation and retain only their religious observances, and La Stampa, which charged the Jews with attempting to “estrange themselves into a national bloc.”
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