Entry 71 · Book chapter 72
May 7 (ii) 1944
Frustrated by unresolved banditry, the General pressures Italian police into a harsher new anti-bandit operation, which Lewis observes as an onlooker.
Reflections
Injustice of the anti-bandit crackdown
Lewis opens by calling the General's mass-arrest campaign against bandits 'a shameful example of the perfidiousness and injustices of this war we conduct behind the scenes' — the crackdown falls only on small-time opportunists, not real gang leadership.
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