Fascist newspapers in this country have stepped up their anti-Jewish campaign. References to the “Jewish question” are appearing more and more frequently. The Rome newspaper, “Asso di Bastoni,” reprinted Mussolini’s 18-point program written in 1943 which says that “members of the Hebrew race are aliens and during a war are to be regarded as members of a hostile nation.”
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