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Last week the balance of political power in Italy suddenly swung to the Left. This was due not so much to Italy's difficulties, although since the fall of Mussolini lire circulation has doubled, the Italian national debt quadrupled (according to the British Ministry of Economic Warfare). It is due mainly to the passage of time which has given the muddied political waters of invaded Italy a chance to clarify. From political confusion some political groups began to settle...
...would never sing in Naples again, would visit his home only "to eat a plate of spaghetti." He kept his vow. During World War I he was begged to sing at Naples' San Carlo opera house for a Red Cross benefit. Caruso wrote a check for 50,000 lire, but refused to sing...
...then there is the announcement that the U.S. Treasury has printed special money for Sicily-in centisimi and lire. What a headache that is going to be on cash books, etc., even though the relationship between dollars and lire will undoubtedly remain fixed. There will be the old problem of service men bringing the money back to the U.S. and trying to change it when they get here...
...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...liberated areas Partisan money is circulated, and so strong is the influence of the new State among the Croat peasants that in certain areas east of Ljubjlana Italian occupation authorities cannot buy food with lire, but have to use bons issued by the Partisans. The liberated area has a radio station, audible in Switzerland, whose English-language newscasts come over in a sharp Yankee accent...