According to the Rome correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, Undersecretary of Interior Vido Buffarini’s speech to the Chamber last Friday revealed that the Italian Government’s anti-Jewish policy is one of the points on which the doctrines of the Catholic Church and Fascist Party do not coincide.
Buffarini described relations between the Church and State as good, but said it was inadvisable to stress matters in which differences were held. An important section of the speech was devoted to racial policy. Replying to charges that Italian racial policy had been adopted to please Hitler, he asserted that those who thought the policy an opportunist move were politically blind.
“I affirm: nothing is changed or ought to be changed in our racial policy,” he said. The report said the declaration was vigorously applauded.
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