“The problem exists and cannot be considered solved,” Popolo d’Italia said tonight of Italy’s Jewish question, according to the Havas News Agency.
The newspaper, citing numerous letters in which Italian Jews have protested their patriotism, declared that there nevertheless was a mass of Jews who merited “watchful control.”
“Beside the Israelites who in this case publicly declared themselves anti-Zionists and devout Italians, there exists, in fact,” the newspaper noted, “an important mass of Jews who do not declare themselves and do not go out of the closed field of their race and their particular mentality, more or less artful from the point of view of adaptation to different situations, and in who consequently deserve watchful control.”
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