351:. From his writings it appears he felt no need to cut himself off, nor to distance himself from Italy on account of it. Many of the Italian writers who ended up in exiled in New York during the 1920s and 1930s who became passionate and vociferous enemies of Italian fascism would have seen the De Ritis position as something of a betrayal: that appears to have been the position taken by
143:. His grandfather, Don Camillo de Ritis, had for many years served as mayor of Ortona. By Beniamino's time any aristocratic connections had become too remote to constitute any sort of a theme in family life, however. He attended school locally, then switching for his final two years of schooling to nearly
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America, to which he always returned. During one of his longer stays away from New York, in or soon after 1934
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Italian-language daily newspaper being set up by Barzini, who in addition to being widely viewed as a leading journalist in Italy, had now become a newly arrived New York immigrant-journalist. During his New York years De Ritis also wrote "Ortona", a "homage to
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Italian readers, in which he attempted to explain America: "Mente puritana in corpo pagano" (Firenze, Vallecchi, 1934) deals with (and disparages) the unresolved American dichotomies of being both a colony and colonizer, frontier land and
210:): several of these newspapers, and in particular the fourth of them, had a national reach. During this period, he also published a couple of moderately sized books about foreigners, dealing with their subjects primarily through the twin prisms of history and geography:
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American entry into the war alongside the British. International travel became, for a time, impractical. During at least some of the war years, which in U.S. terms ran from 1941 until 1945, De Ritis remained in
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the rich history of the town of his birth", which was published in 1925. As the decade continued, and through the 1930s, he was increasingly engaged as a stateside correspondent for leading
Italian newspapers, such as
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