In a letter to the Morning Post of last Saturday,
Lord Grimthorpe discussed the present state of political feeling in Italy, which he has just visited. He understands that the King is opposed to a war with Austria. In any case, Italy could not have gone to war in the summer, as her Army was still suffering severely from the drain of the Tripoli campaign. Now, however, it has been brought by vigorous action to a high state of efficiency. The war party and the anti-war party hold a sort of balance. Both are at one in their ambitions, but they differ as to whether these are more likely to be attained by war or by neutrality. Summing up, Lord Grimthorpe says that some trifling incident may turn the balance one way or the other, but if no disturbing event occurs it would be "very unsafe to assume that Italy will depart from her neutrality."
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