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ESSicily, kd for it the e the amberYank About ItalyWhiteievilie enson chard old ins eltzotl8ft.StarsmainIs93 pub-/ pro L The Uhina, soners assort»sor*8 there ed in Ith of state-1 andthree , and • Naziof de-cnownrape,jointwhich l and taken e sent me in iws of m beintries,Union,ludings, BelNAPLES-—The little grey museum guard started to cry between the statue of Flora with the horn of Abundance and the bronze mug of Tullius Julius Orpa, former mayor of Pom peri. I sat him down on the sandbags that the museum had stacked around to protect the art, and patted him on the back and told him it wasn't as bad as all that. Then I took out my notebook and started to write down why this very ordinary Italian citizen was bawling his head off.He sounded like he had bananas in his mouth; lie was talking in bunches. All the time he was trying to wipe the eyes with a torn leatherette briefcase, He opened it and pointed inside.There was an applf, and a boiled potato with one big bite taken out of it.That's all I got to eat all day,” he said snuffling a little, ‘'one rotten apple and a cold potato. Everything was going all right when that Mussolini had to come and open his big mouth and the whole world fell in.Fixes Massing Of r Nor-in the ries of fnemy crimes traged. nocent st as-ermost t oiderof the iphical of theHitler, d from ch hash. For ofessoiThe little gray man seized a bal-tle axe eight feet high made out of thin air, chopped Mussolini to pieces, stamped on the bloody chunks, and feeling somewhat better get on with his story.'T got a wife and three girls yelling at me to do something. What can I do? I had a good job in the museum because • I am wounded war veteran. I left my foot at Caporetto and the government gave me a job and a pension My wife used to get a little money and my oldest daughter used to work. Altogether we made 1,200 lire a month which was better than most.I was no workingman, I was a professional. Why once a week or so I’d go down the street and think it would be nice to have a little meat and I’d go in and get a pound of tripes or hocks and we’d all eat it I used to spend 18 lire a day for food. Now it would cost me my month’s salary to eat for four days, if I were getting paid any more.T sell everything, my rings, my watch, the chairs, my wife’s brooch and the mirrors to get a little money few* food, and the prices are always higher. I'm going crazy. You know what we eat for breakfast? A potato and nine chestnuts apiece. You know what we got for supper? Another potato and nine more chestnuts. Lunch we got an apple or a couple of figs if I can sell some furniture to buy It”I gavd him a cigarette and he took It and said thank you. I'll smoke it later. I knew he was going to put it in his pocket and sell it so I gave him another.tio pe r2 more d chil o mayted no people erman o thor la. The which [ them, nd wo* :ted to whole is they/ho an-hand.; Nazisrs after 3erma exile isdanger n exile lspiringtccount le first i be to nature ,ould-b human LYONSpmTo the 1 If a i the tail a bullet ward th the plan hour to will the drop to iWe asl he replies the plarn posititi We arlt; there an who cai plain larTo the : In you formed giving £ seven E won tin Methods (Notre 1 and tiedRight.captain,AlmanacJoined In ’35“Cigarettes, he said, “I used tobe able to afford two pocks of cigarettes a week in the good times Everything that Mussolini sakl hewould do Tor us and nothing he did was a veteran so they didn’t make me join the fascists until 1935 I had to pay 50 lire a year dues if I wanted to work, and what good did it do me? Ask me, what good did it do me?”All right,” I asked politely ”What good did it do you?” ’T il tell you.” said the little gray man I saw a movie once. At the Dopo-lavoro. Once in 20 years. My wife, my girls never saw a movie m 20 years I never had four lire extra to buy a ticket What do you think was in that movie I saw? Mussolini telling about all the good he did.” ’Well didn’t he do anything good?” I asked ’’Sure,” said the little man, ”for the secret police he did good. For the Finance guard he dal good: He built them banks to stand in For the automobile drivel’s he built roads For the fascists he built headquarters If you wanted to take an airplane ride there were nice waiting rooms at the airport But for the museum guards he did nothing.’T tell you, solemnly said thelittle man, ’Mussolini has ruinedthe museum guards.”—S.MTo theIf an 45 degre at 300 n rounds j would ttThis lt;neglect e the ain) tor.The vostro— Thus S the irre and tnlt; im portaSono *WOUIK Ho bixj doctor 11 mio -My the fi Yost re Mio pie Vostro Sua tes Mu s*i Suocol Gli olt;lt; eyt$, Non mi ; well Inoltre, 14 I huv
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Sicily Stars and Stripes
Palermo, Sicily, IT
Tue, Nov 09, 1943
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