Taking a vigorous anti-Nazi and warm pro-Jewish stand, a new publication, “Ameritalia,” a tabloid bi-monthly for Italians in America, has just made its appearance on the newsstands. Featured prominently in the first issue is a copy of a cablegram sent by Stefano Bruni, president, to Benito Mussolini, urging Il Duce officially to “extend hospitality and assistance to the refugees of ‘Aryan vandalism’.”
In a letter to the Jewish Daily Bulletin, Bruni said he felt “sure the attitude of the Italian people regarding the atrocities of the Nazi regime would interest your readers.”
Accompanying the cablegram on the last page of the new magazine, which is printed in both Italian and English, there is a long editorial denouncing Hitler and his party’s persecution of the Jews. Characterizing the Nazi chief as “an Austrian buffoon,” the editorial declares that “the expulsion of Jewish scholars, the effete medieval ceremony of ‘Buchverbrennung,’ unoriginal, nauseating and primitive, will be looked upon by future historians as perhaps the first serious manifestation of occidental disintegration.
“The dark haired prophet of ‘Aryanism’ has plunged Germany into the ‘New Dark Ages’,” the editorial goes on. “Race prejudice has always been alien to the Italian spirit. Hitler awakens in us only commiseration and disgust. We have not lost faith and hope in the German people.”
Devoted to business, arts and society, Ameritalia’s policy, according to Bruni, is a liberal one and is not supporting any one political party. The first issue was attractive typographically and profusely illustrated. It is printed on light magazine stock.
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