ROMAN TRADITION
CONVERSION OF FASCIST ITALY.
The conversion of Fascist Italy to the “racial” policy of Nazi Germany, writes a correspondent to "The Times,” came to most of us as a surprise; not least in view of the ambition entertained by the former to be considered as the legitimate successor of the ancient Roman Empire. For nothing in the achievement of that Empire... was more remarkable and more serviceable to universal civilisation than the general extension of its citizenship to men of all races; among them to the Apostle St Paul, one of the two Jewish founders of the Holy See, which Signor Mussolini has always seemed to recognise as not the least illustrious part of Italy's heritage. On the other hand, the racial theories of Herr Hitler —unsound in science, heretical in theology, reactionary in philosophy—have already deprived of German citizenship the two men, who, in twentieth-cen-tury Germany and Austria, respectively have made the deepest impression upon the general thought of their age.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1939, Page 2
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164ROMAN TRADITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1939, Page 2
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