The Archive · 1938

ANTI-SEMITIC MOVE GROWS IN ITALY

New Magazine Launched to Foster Campaign Rome, Feb. 10.

A growing anti-semitic feeling is noticeable in Italy to-day.

The first issue of "Il Giornalissimo," a weekly magazine, appeared te-day as the official organ of anti-semitism, a sentiment alrendy revealed in the papers representing extreme Fascism, such as "Il Revere" ind "Regime Fascista."

The leader of movement is the Sig. Roberto Farinacci, a member of the Fascist Grand Council.

In its first number, "Il Giornalissimo" published a lengthy interview h Sig. Giovanni Preziosi, notorious anti-Semite, concerning the problem of Jews in Italy "for wherever there are Jews there is the Jewish question."

The magazine presents Italy as a great anti-Jev force.

"Anti-Semitism never reveals itself." the paper stated, "until to a Jewish anti-imperial and anti-fascist will is opposed an imperial will of universal character. This is. for ex-of a Japanese advance abandoned ample,. the. Roman idea."-—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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