The Daily Herald reported today from Alexandria that Signor Pinto, wealthiest Italian Jewish cotton exporter, who recently bequeathed three-fourths of his fortune to Italian charities and schools, visited the Italian consulate in Alexandria and tore up his will in the presence of the consul. Signor Pinto’s action was motivated by Italy’s decrees expelling all foreign Jews within six months and closing to native Jews the educational system.
The Herald also reports that Egyptian Jews will boycott Italian goods and that Jewish insurance companies and other firms will dismiss Italian employes.
Roberto Farinacci, leading Italian anti-Semite, was reported to have denounced Arturo Toscanini, famous Italian conductor, as an anti-Fascist and a friend of the Jews, and to have urged the Italian authorities to punish upon their return all Italians attending his concerts in Switzerland. Rome reports said Jewish enterprises have been warned that they must curtail their window advertising displays.
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