Italy’s anti-Jewish legislation has never been popular and its enforcement is “in abeyance,” W.L. White reported to the New York Post today in an air mail dispatch from Rome.
“The Italians’ anti-Jewish laws, insisted upon by Hitler about a year ago, and put into effect to butter up the cogs of the Axis,” Mr. White said, “have never been popular in Italy, which is basically an urbane and civilized Latin country. The laws have not been repealed. There has been no open rupture with the Axis on this or any other point. But their enforcement is, to put it mildly, in abeyance.”
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