Evening star., 1925-01-11
BY OLIVER OWEN KUHN.


Into the inner sRnctum of the gov
ernor's palace in Trieste where I sat,
strobe a tall. vigorous, handsome and
exceedingly magnetic man in the uni
form of an Italian general. His per-
sonality was overwhelming. He
breathed of vital forces, courage and
straightforwardness AS one recalled
the historic struggle Of Italian forces
on the Carso, subsequent emergence
under this mans leadership from an
impossible situation when the Aus
trians smashed through the Italian
lines in the Julian Alps. thereby
bringing disastrous retreat to the line
of the Paive, as one recalled the
brilliant part Italy's second army
played in subsequent offensive which
swept the Austrians= from out OF
northern Italy, initiating eventual col
lapse of the. whole Teutonic mill
tary scheme Of things in the World
War. one understood why it was this
man, no other than the Duke of
Aosta, should have led italian forces
to their greatest glory.
In the light of events that have
transpired since that day in Trieste
when he so graciously received me
and discussed the battles of the not
remarks is never to be forgtten. With
an earnestness that would have
brought foreboding to those that
might oppose him, but eyes alight
with a patriotic fervor seldom seen,
he exclaimed with 'f1rmness, every
SYLLABLE cutting its way into ones
consciousness.
"Italy now has a new destiny
Italy is reclaimed to Italy and TO the
world"
Same Spirit I'm Fiume.
The force of that remark clung.
Later when / entered Fiume, where
D'Annunzio, the poet sat amidst his
armed legions to hold that Adriatic
seaport against his own government
and the world if need be, In the idea
that it was rigthfully ltaly's and
should ever remain so, despite efforts
of statesmen In Paris to the contrary.
one found the spirit or the Duke OF
Aosta everywhere.
AS might have been expected, DAN
nunzio's legions were recruited from
the Younger element OF Italian life.
It was not that the men had taken
their stand for the mere sake Of Fiume.
It was not that they sought personal
adventure for the moment. But every
man Of them stood determined to see
realized Italy's destinies, in the face
.pf week-kneed Italian negotiators in
Paris. .,,
Italy's efforts in the war could not
be minimized, they insisted, If Italy's
future place in the sun should be in
sured. No longer should Italy enter
world counsels with supplication in
stead Of insistence. There should be
famed to white heat a national con-
s<.iousness-one that would forever
stand guard over the nations desti-
nies. Italy had been reborn in the
fire of bloody battle. Younger Italy
had carried Italian colors to glorious
victory, and the fruits thereof should
be protected by the youth of Italy in
or out of the, army. All were dis
gusted with temporizinG and equivo-
cation pursued by Ita1y's after-the-
war patriots in charge of the gov
ernment in Rome.
There must be this protection, they
argued, if the. youth of Italy had to
obtain it by means of revolution
against existing regimes and govern
mental forms. There must be no bar
tering, no tagging, but determined,
forward-looking eRdeavor. Sly winks
and the remark, I'VE will see you in
Rome" but outwardly indicated the
| smoldering determinations of Italy's
youth.
Later in Milan and in Turin as well
as in the Italian colony of Paris one
| heard the remark, Italy must be
redeemed. Italy must advancep
And when ~Mussolini took the helm
and crystallized this spirit of the
youth of Italy in what Is known as
Fascist he found in every nook and
| corner of the land ready response
from those elements, which. spurred