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should choose to share that danger, rather than to seek safety elsewhere. Did we not prove this each in our way by remaining in Europe during the whole of the first four years' war?

Eventually foreigner still remaining in Italy were advised to return to their respective countries. The announcement was made in a newspaper somewhat cryptically. It proved, however, to be hat moment if ever to leave Florence, and had there been competent advice at hand, perhaps I should have accompanied Natalie to Switzerland. But Natalie turned to one of her many acquaintances, who, thinking that the American army was about to enter Florence, answered: "Stay where you are!" AS it was, Natalie was looking far from well. She said that under no circumstance would she leave without me. At the time it was unlikely that we should ever obtain simultaneously an Italian, a German and a Swiss permission or find a train to convey us across the frontier.

July 25th. Mussolini imprisoned! With the imprisonment of Mussolini the dream of a united Europe vanished, so the Fascists say and add the nightmare, a reality with the steady advance of the Bolshevik army.

We are passing a disquieting moment during the present Badoglio regime. Hopes of peace have made the people hysterical and they hang white sheets from windows and balconies. There is much shouting about and even on our quiet hill-side at night we can hear "Abbasso i signori!"son de cloche of a Communist movement.