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Promptly the Italian Government offered a 1,000,000 lire ($10,000) reward for Roatta's recapture. Bitterly the Rome press laughed, gibed at a "trial of errors." Serenely the High Court continued his trial in absentia...
...Arithmetic books offered this typical problem: "In order to live Mussolini once had to work as a stone mason. He describes it in his diary. He worked eleven hours per day, received 32 centesimi per hour, made 121 trips per day with his wheelbarrow full of stones. How many lire did he make per day, per week? How many trips with his wheelbarrow did he make per month...
Beniamino Gigli, moonfaced, huffy-puffy Italian tenor, whose onetime Nazi friends have given him some uneasy moments since Rome's liberation (TIME, June 19), forked over 50,000 lire ($500) on a threat of kidnapping. He gave the money to one Giuseppe Albano, "Rome's public enemy No. 1," who then sent three men out to kidnap him anyway. The police, tipped off, captured the three henchmen and killed Albano...
...carried paper money that resembled cigar coupons. On one side was printed "Allied Military Currency," on the other the Four Freedoms (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943). Washington, for the next 15 months, did not even hint who would redeem the $350,000,000 worth of invasion money (pegged rate: 100 lire to a dollar) which the U.S. and Britain subsequently issued in Italy. Said Treasury Secretary Morgenthau cryptically : redemption was a matter for the peace table...
...nightmare. . . . It worries . . . the Allied commissions even more than the shortages of food." Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare reported: "Italy's financial condition can hardly be described in black enough terms." The black terms: Italy's national debt, now more than 650 billion lire, is still soaring. Bank notes in circulation have doubled since the Allied invasion, now stand at the fantastic high of 260 billion lire. The Allied currency contributed only a small part to this increase, which mainly came from the frantic efforts of the Badoglio-through-Bonomi Governments to keep afloat. With...