Hand-shaking, hat-tipping, private banquets, lectures, parlor games, afternoon tea, New Year and Christmas eve celebrations and any expression of pity for the Jews are all considered “bourgeois” and outmoded in Fascist Italy.
To show their contempt for such “decadent foreign customs” Fascist organizers are preparing a “chamber of horrors” exhibit on them for the economic self-sufficiency exposition now underway here.
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