The newspaper Giornale d’Italia charged in a Bucharest dispatch that the Jews were planning destruction of the Rumanian oil fields in order to bring about defeat of the Axis Powers which are dependent upon them for their oil supplies. The dispatch said the Jews were acting upon instructions from Zionist headquarters in London.
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