"}The poet-soldier\u2019s occupation also saw the arrival of bohemians, artists, adventurers, fugitives, homosexuals, dandies and reformers of every type.\n In essence, the contested city welcomed anyone who wanted to dethrone \nthe bourgeoisie who sent the youth to war and afterwards expected that \nthere would be business as usual.
Some of these people were part of D\u2019Annunzio\u2019s governing \nadministration. There was L\u00e9on Kochnitsky, a Belgian poet who headed the\n Foreign Affairs department; Harukichi Shimoi, an Italian enthusiast \nfrom Japan who acted as a diplomat and tried to teach karate to the Fiuman volunteers; and last but not least Guido Keller, a former war aviator known in Fiume for being a nudist, a vegetarian and a prankster, who was in charge of a ministry that organized acts of piracy.