FASCIST ATTITUDE TO JEWS
PROPOSED SETTLEMENT IN
ABYSSINIA (Received October 7, 9.10 pjn.) ROME, October 7. The Fascist Grand Council ended at 2.40 a.m. after sitting 4hr 40min. The official statement merely says :hat the Jewish question and the international situation were discussed. The council will meet again at 10 pan. It is unofficially stated that the Council approved a proposal to settile European Jews in certain areas in Abyssinia, “providing international Jewry ceases its unfriendliness towards Italy.” • An official statement issued later says that the Fascist Grand Council has decided on a decree prohibiting marriage between Italians and Jews or other non-Aryans and forbidding State officials to marry foreign women of any race. Italians may marry foreigners, even Aryans, only with the consent of the Ministry for the Interior. The Council confirmed the la.w forbidding the entry of foreign Jews into Italy and expelling foreign Jews within six months, except those over 65 years of age or who are married to Italians before October 1938. • The families of Italian Jews who have fallen in the Libyan, Great, Abyssinian and Spanish wars or who have suffered injuries for the fascist cause or who have rendered exceptional service to the State in migration to Abyssinia are not discriminated against. v
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Southland Times, Issue 23634, 8 October 1938, Page 7
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