Dismissals of Jews Continue

Michele Risolo, Jewish director of Popolo di Trieste, organ of the Fascist Federation, was ousted from his post today as Italy’s newly-evolved anti-Jewish policy continued to be enforced. He was replaced by Carlo Barbieri, editor of the anti-Jewish weekly Roma Fascista.

Nineteen Jews employed as civil servants in the Interior Ministry were dismissed from their jobs. Meanwhile, Italy’s leading anti-Semitic newspaper, Il Tevere, published a list of 174 Jewish professors excluded from teaching under the terms of last week’s decree closing the educational system to Jews. Among those proscribed are some of the most distinguished figures in the Italian educational world, including the following: Giorgio del Vecchio, first rector of the Fascist University in Rome; Gino Arias, a specialist in corporation problems and staff member of leading Italian newspapers, and Dr. Eugenio Morelli, one of the foremost doctors in the country and the driving force behind the anti-tuberculosis campaign.

Il Tevere also published a list of 36 allegedly Jewish-dominated insurance companies, representing nearly half of Italy’s 87 insurance organizations. The navy, it was announced, has decided to add information about racial antecedents to its recruiting forms. An official communique announced that in cases where application of the racial laws was doubtful, it would be decided by an interior Ministry decree, from which there would be no appeal.

A total of 303 foreign students, among them 265 Jews, have left Pisa University. IL Tevere demands that the square named for Sidney Sinnino, wartime Foreign Minister and Premier for 100 days before the war, be renamed.