Office of the Historian

865.4016/61: Telegram

The Ambassador in Italy (Phillips) to the Secretary of State

Rome, September 11, 1938—2 p.m.
[Received September 11—10 a.m.]

238. My 225, September 2, 5 p.m. An official communiqué yesterday announces that elementary schools supported entirely by the Government will be established for Jewish children who have been barred from the Italian schools; these new schools will be in addition to those already in existence and maintained by the individual Jewish communities in Italy. These schools are to be established according to the communiqué “as of the new scholastic year” which would mean apparently next month.

Phillips