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-83- by one of their own buses. These men cast ungly glances in our direction and not because we were foreigners but because we wore hats, showing that we belonged to the much hated 'signore' class. We returned home and were astonished to hear that our maid (the one we took for a Pole) had received orders from the German military authorities to leave at once and join other Germans somewhere on the outskirts of Florence. Does it mean that the Germans are about to evacuate Florence? N. received a letter from a friend who describes Paris as going through the same nightmare as we are experiencing here. May 14th The maid came back to tell us that she is to work at a Villa near Florence, Huge wages, some three thousand lire a month, have done much to dry her tears. She had become far less agressive, and though sufficiently fed by Antonio, unknown to us she was receiving extra food rations from the German authorities. But it was irrelevant that she should be fattened up to work for Americans. 'Your country needs you.' she was told. May 24th In the opinion of many we are about to pass through the worst moment of the war. Our Sfollati and others have warned us that in all probability tomorrow will be an eventful day: a communist uprising is expected; the Allies are to land at Genoa; shoals of parachutists are to join the rebel army hiding