The Vatican is protesting obligatory use in Prussian schools of an anti-Semitic handbook by the late Theodor Fritsch, the Illustrazione Vaticane states, reproaching the German government for its breach of the terms of its concordat with the Vatican.
The Pope yesterday gave an audience to Chief Rabbi Hevesy of Hungary. The chief rabbi complained of the aggrevated Jewish situation in Central Europe resulting from the increased agitation for race hatred which he described as contrary to the moral doctrines upheld by the Pope and the teachings of Christianity.
Pope Pius referred to his own friendly association with Jewish scholars and in concluding the audience expressed his wishes for peace for the Jewish people.
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