Sowerbutt's Recall

 "Jimmy said he was always getting into scrapes doing odd jobs for the government," the retired writer for the East London Pioneer, who still has the notebook from his early 1960s interview with Jimmy Sowerbutt, said. "He said it was funny an East End lad helping out the toffs. It quietened down after the war with Mr Churchill and his mate, Mr Bracken, going into what they called Opposition. But Jimmy was called back to the colours towards the end of 1947.

"He didn't say much about it but an Eyetie high-up, Count Sforza, was visiting the Smoke to see the government blokes. Some place called Trieste was often in the newspapers. The blokes there wanted to go their own way or they didn't; always that sort of business after the war. The upshot was a group of these Trieste people were in the Smoke and were planning to shoot the Count. A merry old chase for Jimmy and the lads. A sniper in the building opposite his hotel, poisoned food and a bomb planted where the Count and the government people were having talks. He even met up with a lady they had worked with during the war. Funny name, Rosetta. Jimmy said you could write a book about it. But he never did, he was never strong with a pen and paper."
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