New and more severe anti-Jewish regulations for the purpose of “finally solving the Jewish problem in Italy” are demanded in a campaign inaugurated by Fascist student organizations in all Italian universities, according to reports from Rome reaching here today.
The campaign is designed principally to counteract the Catholic resistance in Italy to the application of the already existing anti-Jewish laws. It is being coupled with attacks in the official Fascist press on the Catholic newspaper “Italia” and other Catholic organs which continue to combat the idea of the existence of a “Jewish problem.”
An appeal of the Fascist student groups, addressed to Roberto Farinacci, former secretary of the Fascist Party and editor of the anti-Semitic organ “Regima Fascista” complains that the people in Italy appear to ignore the anti-Jewish laws. The appeal, published in the Fascist student organ “Moschetto,” demands a public explanation for “the incomprehensible relaxation or failure of the regulations governing the Jewish problem in Italy.”
The Regima Fascista, in a number of articles this week, intensified its campaign of abuse against the official press of the Catholic Church. Stating that “the official attitude of the Catholic Church on the Jewish question does not correspond with what we consider the real Christian outlook,” one of the article says: “The time will come when even the blind will see that Christian civilization cannot be saved by the wide-spread false piety which is usurping the name of Christian charity, but rather by the courageous work of political men.”
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