The resignation of Gino Olivetti, Jewish president of the Cotton Institute and vice-president of the Textiles Corporation, was announced by the press. “Personal motives” prompted Olivetti’s resignation, according to the press. He has several times been attacked by Italian anti-Semitic newspapers. (Olivetti is 57 years old and Italian-born.)
Long a prominent figure in the Fascist state, Olivetti, in addition to his other posts, had been the Italian employers’ delegate to the International Labor Office at Geneva, president of the Institute for Economic and Commercial Sciences, Professor of Corporative Law at Turin University and secretary-general of the Fascist Federation of Italian Industries.
The expulsion from Italy of Imre Barcs, correspondent of the Hungarian newspaper Az Est, considered to be anti-Nazi, caused indignation among foreign newspapermen here, some others of whom are being subjected to special surveillance. German police agents are collaborating with the Italian police in this work, it was said.
Barcs, who had lived here for many years, was awarded an Italian medal after having served as a war correspondent during the Italo-Ethiopian war. (Barcs is a converted Jew and is married to a Jewess.)
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