The Republic wants to make full reparation to the Jews for this historical injustice committed against them, Senor Fernando de los Rios, the Minister of Justice, declared amid a burst of loud applause in the Chamber to-day, moving the Deputies to a high state of emotion, when he reminded them of the persecutions which the Inquisition had inflicted on the Spanish Jews, and of the Jewish expulsion from Spain by the edict of 1492.
The Minister, who was speaking on the question of the separation of the Church from the State, took the view that the Church should in future have to do without State assistance, and depend for its maintenance upon the contributions of the faithful. At any rate, he thought, they should not make any definite arrangements with regard to the provisions to be made for the various religious congregations, but should wait and find out what were the particular requirements of each.
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