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regime?' - 'Yes, but before my country was at war with Italy. I also gave money to the Italian Red Cross during the other great war when Italy was an ally of America.' Here I showed him D'Annunzio's poem 'La France Croisée', together with my picture of a Red Cross nurse (a pamphlet brought out for Italian and French hospitals in the year 1915). - 'You love Italy?' the young man said, not without emotion.-Yes, and politics play no part in this love.' - 'Were we for Roosevelt?' - 'How could we be otherwise? He is our President, and are not all out interests in America" - 'Did we want a new Europe?' - 'Yes, a Europe without war and famine.'

While looking at some more photographs of my work, my interrogator suddenly turned to me and said: 'Do you realize that Art is to have no longer a place in destroyed Italy?'  and I to reply: 'Italy, though even half destroyed, will still be richer in Art treasures than all other countries. it will be up to the Italian artists to rebuild [[strikethrough]] rebuffd [[/strikethrough]] Italy.' The young man, not some-what thawed, told us that he was a Neapolitan, that his four brothers there were prisoners and that he himself would soon be sent back to the Army. We parted on friendly terms though at first we had eyed each other with much mutual distrust, yet I wonder ... What did he write down on a paper when he was questioning me?

October 8th N. Feels very despondent and with cause. What, after all the dangers we have undergone, we Americans are now to be drawn.