Into its dilapidated rooms were crowded some 500 Yugoslav families. They were gradually being evacuated to make room for hundreds of Italians who were being returned from Tunisia. The Yugoslav refugees had fled from a regime which many people want to call democratic but which subjects people to so many pressures that they would prefer to become exiles. rather than endure it. The poor Italians were returning to Italy because they were literally starving in the economic desert that is Tunisia today. where one out of every three families is on public relief and for which these poor Italians could not qualify because of their Italian background. Santa Chiara is one of the many ancient buildings of Europe that has sheltered in the past 15 years several generations of helpless and dispossessed people.
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