Every day some beautiful building disappears under a bomb...

Una Gioncada Haldane

Tyrone-native living in Italy during Mussolini's regime

I’m sore at my fellowmen, sore, that in our age we are so civilized that we destroy so much beauty created in so-called less civilized times. It’s a shame and a disgrace that we are obliged to do these things.

Every day some beautiful building, centuries old, disappears in a second under a bomb. Nothing can replace these works of art that give such joy to the whole world […] Today […] it is the turn of the Royal Palace in Palermo […] The other day it was Cologne Cathedral, Coventry Cathedral and so on.