The Rome radio announced today that the Badoglio Government is re-introducing the Italian Constitution of 1861, brought into being by the first Italian Parliament to meet after the unification of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel II. The same broadcast announced that the Government has abrogated the racial laws introduced by the Mussolini Government in 1938 at the behest of the Nazis. (Abrogation of the racial laws had been previously reported by Stefani, official Italian news agency.)
Dispatches from Switzerland report that Italians who had acquired “Aryanized” Jewish enterprises under the racial laws are now returning the keys to the Jewish owners. Five Italian political parties–the Socialists, Christian Democrats, Liberal Reconstructionists, National Italian Action, Communists–are said to have adopted resolutions urging compensation of Jews for material losses suffered under Mussolini’s “Aryanization” policy.
The newspapers Stampa and Corriere della Sera, which along with other Italian newspaper under the Mussolini regime had been violently anti-Semitic, are now adopting a decidedly pro-Jewish attitude.
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