Fascist Press Charges Jews in Italy with Spreading ”alarming Reports”

With Italy’s position becoming more and more difficult as a result of American victories in North Africa and the Allied victory on the Libyan front, the Regima Fascista, organ of the notorious anti-Semite Roberto Farinacci this week launched an intensified compaign against the Jews of Italy, charging them with spreading ”alarming reports.”

The latest issue of the Fascist paper which reached here today contains an article alleging that the Jews in Italy are disseminating false reports about the battle on the African front, and are conducting a whispering campaign to the effect that Germany is annexing the Italian harbor city of Trieste. As a Fosult of these rumors, the paper complains, many persons are selling their property in Trieste and moving to the interior of Italy.

”It will not be time wasted to collect, constantly and diligently, evidence of the propagandist tactics of the Jews and thus unmask their activities,’ the Regima Fascista writes. It reports that the former Jewish mayor of Trieste, Paolo Salam, who has just changed his name to Dangari, has sold a large block of several houses in the center of the city of Trieste to a foreigner and that his example has been followed by many other “discriminated” (privileged) Jews who then invested their capital in property in Rome. Milan and other cities. In addition, the paper says, fairly big companies controlled by Jews have transfered their head offices and management from Trieste to Rome and Milan without any plausible reason. It also charges that 1,200 Trieste Jews have recently moved to other sections of Italy.