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ATLANTA
Concordat With Vatican Improves Status
Of Italian Jewry, Mussolini Declares
In Interview
Clears I p Doubts on Non-( atholic
Cults in Kingdom; Tells J. T. A.
Director Italy Has No Designs
on Palestine
Rome (J. T. A.)—Some of the
doubts which arose in the minds of
many concerning the legal status of
Italian Jews and other non-Catholic
cults in Italy following the conclusion
of the concordat with the Vatican
were cleared up by Benito Alussolini
in an interview he granted today to
Jacob Landau Managing Director of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The Concordat, if anything, has im
proved the status of the Jewish com
munity in Italy. The Jewish, as well
as the Protestant churches are official
ly recognized by the state, and in the
exercise of their functions they en
joy an equal status with the Catholic
church, the Prime Minister declared.
The rabbi has the same right to
perform marriages as was granted in
the concordat to the Catholic priest.
Similarly, there is no obstacle for a
civil marriage between a Jew and a
Christian. “This is why I say,” Mus
solini declared, “that the concordat, is
far from harming the Jewish com
munity in Italy. On the contrary, it
has improved and strengthened its
status. It has regulated the relations
between the Jewish community and
the State. On the same principles and
on the same standards as have regu
lated the relations between the Cath
olic Church and the State. It was for
this reason that the representatives
of the Protestant and Jewish churches
have expressed their satisfaction with
their new status, which was the inevi
table result of the conclusion of the
concordat. Priest or rabbi may per
form marriage ceremonies, but every
citizen has a right to give preference
to the civil ceremony. Generally, the
concordat and its meaning were wide
ly misunderstood. The fact of the
matter is that the State and the
Church remain as separated as they
are in the United States of America.
1 he right reserved for every Italian
to choose a religious or a civil mar
riage ceremony is an indication of
the fact that the concordat has not
changed the situation.
The concordat regulates the rela
tions between the State and the
Church without conceding the Church
any influence or power in the affairs
of the State. Only in two matters do
the Church and State meet, having
a common sphere of influence, name
ly: religious education in the schools
and in the performance of marriage
rites. However, in both matters, all
churches, as I have emphasized be
fore, enjoy the same rights.
LEWIS WILEY, Business Manager
of the New York Times, was a guest
of honor at a dinner given by the
Chairman of the Daily Chronicle
Newspaper Group in London. Among
those who attended were U. S. Am
bassador Dawes, Lord Birkenhead, J.
H. Thomas, Lord of the Privy Sea
Sir Joseph Duveen, J. P. O’Connor and
the Editor of the “Express,” Blumen-
What is still more important i s ,
fact that religious ceremonies are i r . j
no way obligatory. Any citizen C j
the privilege of accepting or decli n . I
ing the services the church wishes to f
render him.
“Take for instance the case of Jew
ish products in the school question"
the Prime Minister continued. "The '
Jewish parents have the right to with,
draw their children from attending
the religious part of the school pro-
gram. On the whole, the Jewish popu
lation in Italy is a small one. There
are altogether 60,000 Jews in the
country, of whom 15,000 live in Rome
about 10,000 in Milan, 5,000 in Trists.
1,000 in Naples. In the Jewish
school of Rome, about 100 pupil?
are enrolled. It is therefore hardly
probable that the Jews will establish
their own schools, particularly in the
smaller towns.
“The Jews of Rome have so far not
presented any demands to the govern
ment in regard to the school question.
In one part of Rome, one section of
the four Fascist schools, Balila, is
Jewish, and on Saturday, about 600
Jewish pupils, led by their officers and
principals visit the synagogue,” Mus
solini stated.
Asked whether he was in favor of
Zionist movement and its aims in Pal
estine, the Prime Minister replied:
“In Italy, the Jew is free. He is
an equal citizen. He is an Italian. The
Jewish community in Italy is 2,000
years old, in fact it is the oldest Jew
ish community in Europe. The Jew
wept on the grave of Caesar and has
throughout a period of more than
twenty centuries participated in the
history of the country during all of
its trials and tribulations.”
When the correspondent further
asked the Prime Minister as to wheth
er there was any truth in the re
ports appearing from time to time
in the press to the effect that Italy
has intentions of its own, with re
gard to Palestine, Mussolini replied^
“The League of Nations has granted
the mandate over Palestine to Grea.
Britain. Italy has no desire to inter
fere. So far as Italy is concerned.
Great Britain may keep the mandate
The Prime Minister yesterday re
ceived a delegation representing t e
Jewish community of Turin. The de.c
gation, consisting of Drs. 0' aZZi ^
Lattes and Servi, presented Mush-
lini with an album containing
names of Italian Jews who fell dun
the World War, and with a contribu
tion of 50,000 lire for the Fascist wel
fare institutions. The delegation «
pressed its gratitude for the B
Catholic Cults Law, just promulgate*
guaranteeing religious liberty in
country.
PROF. W. F. ALBRIGHT for
years director of the American c
of Archaeology in Jerusalem
the first Christian scholar to e
ored by the Hebrew University
The University will confer upon ^
Albright honorary membership * n
Institute of Jewish Study. He * s _ * r
to leave Jerusalem to become 11 ^
of the Semitics Department
Johns Hopkins University', ba t