The Foreign Correspondent: Part 3

So far I have read to page one thirty eight, but I am covering seventy one to one thirty eight. The book has developed somewhat of a plot but it is still not fully clear. I think that it will have something to do with using his resistance magazine Liberazione to weaken Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’s alliance. In this section he found out through an unknown source that there were spies throughout Italy’s inner workings and he made it his job to make sure to tell everybody though his publication, Liberazione. Later in this section he does publish this and has it distributed throughout Italy. I think it is funny because in every issue it has a note to the police and officials who read it. I also think that the political cartoon that is posted is funny because it uses a proverb that goes like “Potere e meglio di fottere.” (p.130) This roughly translates to “Power is better than %&*!ing.” This quote was put with a very ugly looking Mussolini and a girl who is running away from him. Carlo also proves himself to be something of a player. So far he has had three separate girls, one in Berlin, one in Paris, and one in Prague. However this comes back to haunt him when he has to tell one that he is leaving and she calls him out on having another. This is not good. This also leads me to believe that having more than one girls must have been much easier without the invention of facebook or other social networking sites. I have begun to enjoy this book more now but still have yet to make up my mind on whether or not to recommend it.