Premier Mussolini yesterday received the Chief Rabbi of Rome who stressed that anti-Semitic parties in various countries have taken to calling themselves Fascisti.
The Premier indignantly denied that Fascisim has every pursued or contemplated pursuing an anti-Semitic policy. He expressed his annoyance that anti-Semitic parties in other countries were exploiting for their own ends the “charm which Fascism exercises throughout the world.”
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