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Even the Italians stiffened when bombing brought the front line to them. The R.A.F. first bombed northern Italy in June 1940, but did not attempt a real campaign there until last October. Between then and Dec. 2, the British poured some 1,500 tons on Milan, Genoa, and Turin (where most of Italy's motor vehicles are made). Damage and panic were impressive, but in the long run the bombings got the Italians' backs up, intensified their hatred of the British. Lately Italy has been hit principally in the south, by American bombers from North Africa...
...Most Italians hate 1) Mussolini, 2) the 250,000 Germans quartered in Italy, 3) the British, who offset much of the enimity toward the Germans by the recent bombings of Milan, Turin, Genoa. For the Allies, the bombings have accomplished great material damage, and they have demoralized northern Italy. But the resentment against Britain is fierce, and many Italian citizens now oppose any suggestion of a negotiated peace with the British. Presumably the U.S. bombings of Naples are now having a similar effect...
...From the Middle East, where Allied bombers pounded Hitler's African outpost at El Aghéila, U.S. Liberators set out for the second time in two weeks to batter Naples. Since the crippling of Genoa the Axis depot for supplies to Tunisia has been the city of the superstitious Neapolitans. The Italian High Command admitted "heavy damage in the harbor area and in the center of the town," reported 57 dead, 138 injured...
...watch the Gestapo and the Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He made no mention of reports that near Foggia 40,000 peasants had joined with local militia in a spontaneous uprising which was put down after four days by troops from Rome; or that at Genoa on Oct. 23 air-raid wardens staged an anti-war demonstration...
...sell a painting for many years. During that time he travelled incessantly (on a handsome allowance from his father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence of the Barbizon school did Corot begin to paint, not what nature is, but his dream of what it ought...