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"in any case, setting aside all questions of my personal shortcomings, i have arrived at a time when, in their hearts, these people must be thouroughly sick and tired of us. A year ago we liberated them from the Fascist Monster, and they still sit doing their best to smile politely at us, as hungry as ever, more disease-ridden than ever before, in the ruins of their beautiful city where law and order have ceased to exist. and what is the prize that is to be eventually won? the rebirth of democracy. the glorious prospect of being able one day to choose their rulers from a list of powerful men, most of whose corruptions are generally known and accepted with weary resignation. the days of Benitio Mussolini must seem like a lost paradise compared to this"

Norman Lewis, Naples '44