The southern news., 1946-11-09
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ITALIAN NEWSPAPER
DEPICTS COLORED
AMERICAN SOLDIERS

CtnerS follow MIN and take plac-
es on the merry-g -go-round's horS-
Gs and carts.
The merry go-round turns,
the happy soldiers laugh and ex-
change big blows with their
hands.
"An astonished child is look
ing at Negro who passes with
long cigar in his mouth.
In the electric humping cars
every Negro has his white child
to amuSe. 1t is a custom now
a Negro and a child. But while
the Negroes who are driving ars
shouting and laughing, the chill
dren remain with their sorry ard
thoughtful faces. From time to
time the couple exchange few
words. The Negro mods his head.
In Piazza Vittorio the children
know how to speak to Negroes.
"They know all about Negrot s,
the children of Piazza Vittoric
that they are good, very good.
that they like being with white
people, that they must drink.
but not too much because 9th
erwise they become crazy and
dangerous.
1T is easy to make Negroes
have fun. They remain on the
merry-go-round for whole hours,
they shoot at the stand an ev-
erlasting series of bullets, and
they can dance whole night in
q Crra oil l.,
GUS little steps.
There are about 5000 Negro
soldiers between Leghorn and
Piza. Two thousand of them re-
Gently arrived from Germany to
spend couple of months of hol:
day in Italy
1T is mostly their presence
that has caused this sort of rush
to Leghorn.
about 1000 'segnorine' live
more or less constantly between
Piza and Leghorn. They are ac
companied by an uncounted
number of men and children But
between Leghorn and Piza there
are not only Negroes. There are
10000 German prisoners of war
and several thousands of Amer
ican troops. Tirrenia Pen-Beach'
is entirely requisitioned. The lit
tie town has been turned into a
large bathing resort for Amer
leans, Germans, and NEGROES. No
great changes were made any
how: there were already several
'Colonie marine (The large diff
cultieS fell upon the U. D. l. of
Leghorn which had then to find
another place where to send the
children of the city,.
Leghorn, Tombolo, Calam
brone, Marina Di PidS and Tir-
renia. For miles and miles there
is barbed wire along both sides
of the road. Miles of jeeps, tents,
Fords, Dodges, guns, tractors, and
amphibious vehicles. Mountains
of material, food, medicines,
clothes and cigarettes.
"Those wealthy camps exercise
an irresistible attraction for the
boldest delinquency and for the
most incurable prostitution
ut is dreadful to look at the
mattinale' of the Questura where
are registered the names of the
hundreds of people who camC
from every part of Italy, from
little countries of Sicily, Marche
Veneto, Naples and so forth -
14year old boys, 16-year ole
girls, women of so and men who
declared they are tradeSmen.
Everyone says that with the
Negroes it is good business.
Master strokes are made with
the Negroes. It is only when they
are guarding a depot that the
place is attacked with tommy
guns and hand grenades.
1T is related that they were
selling lorries full of sugar ir
Naples for a few thousand lire
"They used d to pay 500 lire
when in Rome, only to be pho
tographed with girls under theil
arms. Photos they will some day
proudly show in America.
The girls of the fifth V ID
pavilion of the local hospital say
that working with the Negro
is sound business. This is why
they organize mass escapes, re
volts and mutinies to 60 back tt
them. Four of them have already
escaped the hospital by letting
themselves slide along thell
sheets out of the window.
Negro soldiers, prostitute
and thieves live together an un
real life. With an American sol
dier they go once, they make ;
good hit; that's all. The Negroes
on the contrary, have no meas
ure: they do not sell a packet o
cigarettes but a truck They dC
not pay women for one night
but want to stay continually
with her.
Women, men and children
ruined by the war are ingenious
ly running behind the mirage o
the Negro soldiers. They per
form every day little an d BIZ
crimes. They fall day by day NOR
deeply into illegality, so mucl
it is impossible to come back ant
live again in society. Tombolo
which lays about 6 miles from
Leghorn, is surrounded by a lie
gerd-Negro soldiers, thieves, out
laws of every nationality live
primitive life in what is calleC
today "the forbidden town" tina
even the MP cannot enter.
"The trucks which must carr,
the Negro soldier back arrive il
Piazza Vittorio at about mid
night. They sound their horns a