Raffael Jona, president of the Jewish Documentation Center here, telegraphed a protest today to Interior Minister Taviani, in Rome, requesting that the Government halt the “provocation” of a Europe-wide meeting of neo-Nazis and other right-wing elements, convened here today by the Veterans of Mussolini’s Final Republic.
The two-day session is being attended by about 24 representatives of extremist groups from Italy, Britain, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, West Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria.
The official “host” of the gathering is Antonio Monaco, who was arrested here in 1960 for desecrating the Milan synagogue with a swastika and sending threatening letters to Jews. It was doubtful whether Government authorities would take steps against the meeting since, according to officials, it must be viewed legally as a “private gathering.”
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