The expulsions of Roma by the government, however, have had one most unexpected effect: They seem to have caused far greater outrage among Catholics than among Jews. The archbishop of Toulouse even drew an unequivocal comparison with the Jews during the war (he too later qualified his remarks), and the interior minister met with the head of the Church here to try to appease Catholic concern over the issue. But the chairman of CRIF, France’s umbrella Jewish organization, while noting the common fate of Gypsies and Jews during World War II, mainly expressed the Jewish community’s “dismay” at the Roma-Jew comparison.
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