New-York tribune., 1909-11-01
RECONCILED
Racconigi Meeting Marks End
of a Long Feud.

,f-,,,y-ieht 1909 by the Brentwood Company)
While much has been written during the
,ast week as to the political consequences
which are likely to result from the recent
I >jsif of the Car TO the King and Queen
OF italy, at Racconigi no mention has
eeen made of the circumstance that it
marked the end Of a long feud between
the sovereign houses of Savoy and of Ro-
nlanoff.
From the beginning Of the nineteenth
century there has been always n disposi-
tion on the part Of the Russian court TO
look down upon that of Turin, and this
sas not only emphasized, but converted
in1o absolute hostility, when, after the ac-
cessson OF Victor Emmanuel IL to the
throne. he identified himself with the
Cni;ed Italy party. took Cavour as his
political adviser, benefited by the revolu-
sionary agitation OF Mazzni. and accepted
she services OF GaTibaldi.
To such an extent did Alexander III carry
This prejudice against Victor Emmanuel, in
-,hom lle saw a Zoe TO the principles of
leritir1acy' and OF monarchy by right
divine" that at The time OF the overthrow
OF the Kingdom OF Naples by Victor
Emmanuel, in conjunction with Garibaldi,
g,-lspi, etc, he bestowed his Order OF St
George upon the King and Queen of Naples
ICr ilS Sa4AalllfA OF lneH defence or the
fortress of Gaeta against what he was
pleased 10 describe as the revolutionary
forces. Alexander II also went out of his
~ay to manifest the same exaggerated
sympathy for the Grand Duke OF Tuscany,
and the Dukes Of AIodena and Of Parma,
who had been deprived of their thrones by
the United Italy movement under Victor
Emmanuel and Garibaldi two and three
years previously.
The Russian imperial family pointedly
eoycotted the reigning house OF Italy, and
'Shen its members visited the dominions of
Victor Emmanuel they held aloof from
ais court, and refrained from the custom
,ary manifestations OF courtesy and consid-
Grafton for the ruler of the land in which
hey were sojourning. At the Congress of
Berlin IN 1878. the prejudice against Italy
continued to such an extent that Prince
Gortchskof and the other Muscovite pleni-
oetentiaries treated their Italian colleagues
r.lth indifference and Italian interests as
= negligible quantity. In fact. Italy was
he one great power that derived no bene-
~ whatsoever from the Berlin Conference,
and was forced 10 come away empty
handed
II was not until the present King of Italy,
while stin Prince of Naples. visited St.
Petersburg some time after his marriage,
and established most cordial relations of
personal friendship with Nicholas II, that
q real rapprocheInent took place. The two
men developed a pronounced liking for
each other, which in the case of Victor
Emmanuel strengthened by the re-
Inembrance Of the kindness which his
wife had received at the hands OF the
widowed Empress under whose, maternal
care and at whose expense she had been
q 711v ar
petersburg.
The friendship was still further strength
ened by the visit paid by the King of Italy
after his accession to the Court Of st.
Petersburg. and if the Emperor has de-
layed until q week ago his return call, 1t
mas not been out OF lack Of affection and
consideration for the King and Queen OF
Italy, but solely and entirely TO the diff
Guilty Of providing for his safety from an
srchist outrage and indignity south Of the
Alps.
But now even those Italians whose liberal
and radical principles had caused them to
range themselves among the foes of the
Gear have changed their mind and nave
teyeloped a far friendlier feeling for Mich
MAS, through the somewhat sudden dlscoV-
try that there is a pronounced community
of interests between Russia and Italy in
she Balkans. and that Russia is more ike
e. than any other power to assist Italy IN
preventing Austria from absorbing Albania,
an Ottoman province which Italy regards
as her own particular sphere, owing TO the
number OF Italians and 10 the predonn-
snance Of Italian trade IN Albania, and TO
the number Of Italian statesmen, officers
and mobiles who pride themselves on their
Albanian origin.
TINS f.ewly formed entente between Rus
sIa and italy. taking the place of the for
m-r eumity between the two, has Its orl-
GIN ia the personal friendship OF victor
l.-1l.au,la! IL and OF Nicholas II, which
Shows after al. that the intercourse OF
fLonarchs with~one another is not without
Z very important bearing upon the interna-
tionaI sitsation and the peace of the world.