XXXIII The restart of the business was going slow, restrained by a bureaucracy linked to the needs of the military leaders. The Americans controlled the area of Granata by the command of Termini Imerese. There they found a good harbor where they could disembark the convoys heading north, and they had built an air terminal that became a reference point for the allied armies in transit. And then, in that small town, there were old industries restarting, giving bread and hope to people impoverished by a war fought on the wrong side. The government strategy chosen by the occupants consisted in maintaining control of the energy sources and to quickly relaunch food production, encouraging by every means the cultivation of land and the reopening of the processing plants. This idea was the right

