Italian anti-Semitism differs from the Nazi variety in that it is “biological and political” rather than “religious and philosophic,” according to Prof. Guido Landra, chief racist expert in the Italian Ministry of Popular Culture, who is quoted in the current issue of Liberty Magazine. The author of the article, Donald Furthman Wickets, offers Prof. Landra’s statement as “the only explanation I could find in all the chancelleries of Europe” of the activation behind Italy’s new racial policy. Title of the article is “Why Mussolini Turned on the Jews.”
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