Italian Jews won a 22-year struggle today for the same exemptions from World War II property taxes granted “citizens of the united nations” by the Italian government in 1948. They were the only Italians not included in that category, and sought a return of the property confiscated under Mussolini’s racial laws. The Foreign Affairs Commission, endorsing the Senate’s new interpretation of Article 78 of the peace treaty between the Allies and Fascist Italy, agreed today to exempt Italian Jews from the confiscations retroactively.
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