Show ITALY TO LIMIT domination can gain no advantage by undue expansion ori on eastern shores of adriatic declares writer it Is of 0 course evident that italy 1 as s no adva advantage niage to gain from tin an undue expansion of her territorial holdings in on the ilie eastern shores ot of the adriatic guglielmo ferrero writes in the atlantic here tile italian population lives only on the coast or near it find and for this reason italy cannot spread lier her domination far into the interior without incurring the risk of coming coining into serious tin and severe conflict with the subject slavic population or with nith those slavic states which will bo be in it a position to intervene in their defense italian mastery of the eastern coast would therefore be limited to a thin littoral litt strip of land find one need not be a great strategist to understand what a disadvantage it would lie be for italy to have to defend a long iong line of frontier a few dozen kilometers from the coast behind which would lie it ii vast hinterland occupied by people seething with discontent fit at being cut off from the sea if italy then does not wish to become involved in long and ardao arduous wars for the he conquest of this hinterland her ter purposes will be best served by bv reducing to a minimum lier her territorial annexation on the further shore of tile the adriatic |