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says Natalie.  "We can go nowhere without special permission and should we ask for one we may be sent to a concentration camp!"
  "Stay where you are, "was the advice given us by one of Natalie's friends,  This friend eventually fled to Switzerland.
  October 5th.  Bareness D. came to see us.  Her gardener's son has run away to join the Communist army which is hiding in the country.  This peasant will be one among thousands of other rough, bearded men who like packs of wolves will fall upon is at a given moment.  So went one to say this lady who specializes in imparting unpleasant, met to say grim tidings to her friends.  It would seem that the aristocracy greatly fears this invasion though at the same time they resent the presence of the Germans.
  According to what is being said about the Angle-Saxon plans, the Communists will be given free hand before the actual liberation of the Allied Armies.  The Bareness has no faith in the Swiss Consul (Switzerland is looking after American interests).  He should have made us leave ages ago instead of influencing us to remain on, she said. As for herself, though German and American by birth and Swiss by marriage, an inadequate balance in a Swiss bank gave reason for her not getting away at all.  She did, however, receive notice when the last train conveying Swiss citizens back to Switzerland was about to leave Florence.  The travellers were not guaranteed that they should arrive in Switzerland and  very  were advised to provide themselves with food