Show m- m Italy's Dilemma 1 I I conditions within Italy were less disturbed it might ii easier for Premier to bring about an acceptable solution the Adriatic problem m but as it is the Italian government to appease pease the h home me people e must put up a bold front against the ther r rest st of the world The situation has been brought to toa a near crisis by SI Slavia's Slavia's vias via's rejection of the proposed pr plan of settlement and andt t hile further parleys will undoubtedly ensue ensile s le the exi existing ting situation c can can h be s said id to be fraught with much p peril iiI J Italy means to continue her her effort t to tomake make ak a c closed o ed Italian lake Jake e. e of the Adriatic and to establish a f foothold c on ft the eastern hore for new new imperialistic adventures IF lf Italy is allowed to dominate all th the gateways from the se sea Slavia into Slavia Jugo-Slavia perpetual discord will b be created It w would be an an offense nse agai against st international justice to bottle up the Jugo n But Italy's own domestic problems problems' are the despair of her st statesmen f It is is' is the accustomed rule of old world diplomacy to seek see c distraction for unrest at home in grandiose projects for fot territorial terri terri- terri terri- t rial al gain afield field This i is the the secret t. t of f- f Italy's continued opposition n t la tf an an equable settlement of the the- Ad Adriatic i ti pro problem lem IP The Italian army is not yet demobilized d Two million troops are f still massed in the the booted peninsula r It rAt At this moment Italy ha has the most effective standing ng army in Europe While While the otherE other E European nations ar are putting their soldiers back to work Italy is making no effort to solve her reconstruction problems by this this nor por- porn normal r n mal method io 7 i The continued mobilization of the t e Italian Halian army is is' is a a gest gesture r of defiance e I It t i is directed against Serbia th the ph principal 1 st state lt of Jugo Jug slavia SaVia The Th world w war was wa started l by by Hungary's Austro g rys attempt to Serbia of her sovereign rights Has the lesson of Austro- Austro Hungary's rys ry's failure been bee so sosoon so soon forgotten in n southern souther Europe |