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...Guerra, Fame, Distruzione." Sulphurous lava, 2,500° F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge. Glowing boulders rattled from the mainstream, set orchards and vineyards afire. The flood engulfed the village of San Sebastiano: first a stone house, then the yellow school and the little church, finally the wineshop...
Children sobbed. Women stretched their hands to heaven. Men raced against the scorching lava to salvage rows of vegetables; they shook their heads dolefully, muttered: "Guerra, fame, distruzione" (War, hunger, destruction.) Priests prayed, paraded the image of St. Gennaro, the Neapolitans' legendary protector, who in the days of Roman persecution passed through a fiery furnace unharmed...
Actually, there had been a complete and picturesque alteration. Stocky President Higinio Morinigo had long teetered on the fence between Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
...becoming increasingly evident that astute old Castillo was not going to have anything to do with aquella guerra (that war) if possible. It was becoming equally evident that he had sold isolationism to Argentina...
...poetry to history; his famed novel on Louis XI and his barber, The Devil, won him Germany's Kleist prize, an international audience. Many a U. S. cinemagoer has seen The Patriot, made from Neumann's short story and three-act play. Other books (translated): The Rebels, Guerra, King Haber and Other Stories...