[...]everybody used the polite form of address lei instead of the Fascists’ forthright Roman voi. - Norman Lewis

It is astonishing to witness the struggles of this city so shattered, so starved, so deprived of all those things that justify a city’s existence, to adapt itself to a collapse into conditions which must resemble life in the Dark Ages. People camp out like Bedouins in deserts of brick.

Inexplicably no boats are allowed out, but nothing is said in the proclamation about rafts. Everyone improvises and adapts.

In this country there are fifty lawyers to every one policeman, and the lawyers expect to win.