War returned to Italy in 1940. In many respects the pattern of Spaini's professional life changed little during the earlier war years, which he spent living in Rome. The arrest of Mussolini in July 1943 was followed by the in June 1944. Naples had been liberated from fascism in October 1943 but in January 1944 was badly affected by . Later in 1944 Spaini accepted an appointment as co-director and political correspondent at "Il Giornale", a newspaper published at that time in Naples under the directorship of . Between 1944 and 1946 the Milanese publishing house republished the stage play translations he had produced for Bragaglia during the 1920s and 30s; and in 1945 in Turin published the translation of Kafka's "Amerika" which Spaini had completed shortly before the outbreak of the war.