38In the meantime my father, as I said before, had been hired by the Allied Forces to cover the position of director in one of the many "Clubs" for Officers, opened in Naples; the day he mentioned this to me, I did not seem enthusiastic about it, because I knew immediately it was a transitory place: one day or another, they would have to leave. My father's real resources, in my opinion, should have been only hotels, as it had been for the past.
I then tried to talk to Comm. Pietro Campione, owner of the Hotel Santa Lucia, where my father had spent the last twenty years of his career, but he too was discouraged; I confirmed the rumours circulating about the possible derequisition of his hotel but, at the same time, I also mentioned the possibility of a further requisition of the same, by t
