The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-09

because the sudden fall of the Crispi
 cabinet had prevented the continuation of the alliance negotiations, blamed
 strongly Italy's lack of steadtastness at
 that time He concluded the alliance l with Austria Hungary alone In 1873, | and without a previous entente With
 Italy Crispi bitterly deplored that It. l ally could not conclude the German al-
 liance until many years later and then
 only by roundabout way, via Vienna.
 and his disappointment was the greater
 as he had thought of an alliance of the
 two Teutonic powers via Rome.
 ] He paid his next visit to Berlin in the summer of 1882, at the time of Arabi Pasha's revolt in Egypt. Italy being only quiet spectator, Crispi desired to induce Bismarck, if possible, to, rein state Ismail Pasha. The chancellor,
 who, in spite of his personal friendship, blamed Crispi at least partly, for the
 failure of the alliance negotiations of 1877, was at that time i'll at Varzin, and instructed some high officials of the foreign office in Berlin, of whom the
 tourist" Crispi inquired about his
 health, to answer that, to his great re- gret, he could not receive him because he was unwell. Crispi hastened from Berlin to London, where he was so successful that the British cabinet asked Italy to unite with England for intervention and the occupation of Europe This proposition was, howev- CT, to his great sorrow, declined in Rome. This regret is easily to be ex- plained since later experience has shown that his endeavor thus to gain for Italy firm footing in Africa could only have been realized in this way. Later on he very bitterly lamented to his intimate friends the fact that Ita- ly had taken the poisoned bone of Massowah instead of the rich flesh pots of Egynt''
 I quote this sentence, which I heard him use more than once, as a strong proof that the rumors are entirely un- founded which tend to blame him for the Italian occupation at the Red Sea- I can even add that this occupation de- stroyed the best successes of his gov ernment in 1887, when his first act was his visit once more to Friedrichsruhe. The French could never forgive Crispi this step He intended to accomplish two things by his visit-tirstiy, to make the Triple Alliance more advantageous to Italy, and, secondly, to secure, if pos sible, the fullest cooperation of the al- lied powers in all international ques- tions of the most vital political interest. l may add that his political views diff fered only in one point from those of Bismarck. He would not have agreed to the decision of the Berlin congress to surrender the Balkan Peninsula to the influence of Austria Hungary and | Russia, but wanted "The Balkans for | the Balkan nations This suggests | that he was most decided opponent of | all Albanian aspirations on the part of | Italy. All these and other highly polit- ical discussions were carried on by Bismarck and Crispi mostly at Fried richsruhe. It was a special advantage to the political situation of that time that the two statesmen were not only 1f a very congenial nature, but also very patriotic and energetic, and knew lust what they wanted.
 Crispi, as is we'll known, did the service to Bismarck, or rather to the German empire, In 1870. Crispi himself related that in August, 1870, he believed that the French relatives would succeed in their appeals to the sentimental gratitude of the court of Florence for 1859, and thus cause the 1ing to enter into an alliance with France After a consultation with the eaders of the Left, Crispi went to Sel- a, the wisest member of the then Ital- an cabinet, and declared that his friends would answer the conclusion of . Franco-Italian alliance by the build ng of barricades. He added: France destroyed the Roman republic in 1s59 Napoleon has Montana on his con- cience, and has been paid with Nice nd Savoy for 1859. Prussia, on the ther hand, was a faithful ally in 1866. he now desires German unity, and nust be hindered least of all in this by hose who struggled for Italian unity. The Italian troops, to be sure. must low march, but not with Napoleon gainst Prussia. but with Prussia gainst Papal Rome" Grispis energy ucceeded in winning over Sella, and trough him the king, for the rejection f a Franco-Italian alliance.-Berln of the London Stand I'd. r