Word: questura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dismal night in Milan, Italy, the secret agent who wrote these anonymous reminiscences was haled into an office of the Questura (police) and left alone for two or three hours in the stench of moldy paper and urine characteristic of Italian police stations. Then he was told that he was guilty of high treason and would be shot in the morning. S. K. could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point...
...Democrats on the left over to and including the aristocracy on the right. . . . It is no longer a movement for any set of principles as much as against the regime. . . . By the time I arrived in Italy, its membership of three hundred thousand reached into Fascist circles, into the Questura, and especially into the student body of Italy. . . . Its leadership is responsible and must be taken seriously...
...Questura and Mussolini's Informatori Privati del Duce ruthlessly tracked down secret agents and saboteurs. But they were handicapped by a wartime shortage of castor oil and by the people's sullen resentment. Trains, particularly those carrying German troops, were wrecked more often than authorities admitted. The Germans were everywhere, openly bragging that Italy was under their full control. But German officers and their women were stoned in Sicily...
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