In an interview granted Chief Rabbi Hevesi of Hungary, Premier Benito Mussolini agreed with the rabbi’s contention that it was necessary for European statesmen to fight race hatred and intolerance as a menace to humanity and civilization, Nyolcorai Usjag, Hungarian government newspaper, reported today in a dispatch from Rome.
The Premier and the Hungarian Chief Rabbi discussed the wild anti-Semitism in certain European countries, aiming at the destruction of Jewish emancipation and annihilation of rights and liberties achieved by two countries of struggle, the government paper reported.
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