Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-19

italy was at last able To begin that march
10 victory, which she had confidently eX-
pectcd Ia take place in 1913. -Four terripie
campaigns with enormous losses IN men
and attended with the invasion and deN-
astation of most of Nenctla separated
Italy from the fruits which she had set out
to pluck. believing them already ripe III
the spii lg of 1915.
Bit when victory was achieved, Italy
confidently expected that her great
sacrifices would he appropriately re-,
warded France and Britain had agreed
by the terms of the Treaty OF London,
signed in 1918, that Italy was to have Il
frontier following the crCSts OF the Alps 70
the Brcnner Pass and including Trieste
and Lstria as we'll as the northern hall OF
Dalmatia In view of her great s'iieTlhRs
and the far larger burdens she had borne,
Italy asked that to what had been proiniS-
ed in the Treaty Of London there should pe
added the Italian city Of Flume.
This request was promptly rejected ny
President Wilson, who declined to recog-
nizc Tie 1Tcatv of London, as well, ~
Paris, Italy found France and britain
more or less tactly supporting President
Wilson, and so far from obtaining tlumcf,
discovered that she could only get Dat
matia at the price Of q war with the Jug"-
Slavs, for whom the Americans pld
British displayed unconccalcd sympathy
and toward whom the French only less
openly uttered approving words
As 81 consequence there has totloWcu
the long period OF unrest and chaos me
DAnnunzio dash to l'umc, tho successive
falls at Italian cabinets, the disappear
ance. first of Orlando and then oi Nlth
The domestic political situation has become
moro and more difficult and at the same
time Itay finds herself involved with the
.IuCo-SaNs. the Albanians and the uTks
The promise Of a new position IN the Near
East has tccn unrCahzcd and not alone
the luca-SiavS. but the Greeks have found
support IN their rivalry with itahans
among the recent allies oi Italy.
Small cause for surprise then tlat
Giohtti Is close to return % power itiS
prophecies have been realized. The poIlcN
of his opponents have lcd Italy into ter
rblv costly adventures with no compcnsat-
inc profits The Central Powers have
hccn beaten. Austria has disappeared,
Germany il for the moment poWcTless
But Italy finds herself abandoned hy hcr
Franco-British allies. denied her share q
the promised gains OF q successful war.
weaker not stronger, rs consequence q
enormous sacrifices
Tor Britain and even more acutclv for
France, tile revival Of Glolittis influence
must have a SINISTER significance. tc-
tween France and Italy today there exists
bitterness comparable with that which
existed between France and Germany SIX
wears ago. Nor Is there much less resent
ment over British and American pohcy
The Italians feel themselves betrayed.
They cannot now strike back, but IN the
future, there is little reason % doubt that
ItaIv will seek new alliance with Ger
manv, an association with some new
Central European group which will I'M
clude Rllmana and Cerman-spcaking
Austria and may not impossihly draw
Hungary IN ultimately
All ii these things arc natural conse-
oucnccs 81 the course ol the United States,
britain and France ri Paris But II Is
France which Will have 10 bear the burden
as usual And for France the return q
Giofltti i 4 menace which can hardly be
exaggerated looking 70 future