10 MAY 1940, page 13

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON HAVE been reading Mr. Christopher Hollis' anthology I on Neutral War Aims, and have been distressed by the essay contributed by Daniele Vare. Signor Vare is a......

It Is Distressing Also To Find A Man Of Signor

Vare's intellec- tual integrity repeating the legend that Italy was badly treated by France and Great Britain (to say nothing of the United States) after the last war. This......

It Is Evident, Of Course, That Signor Vare Expects Us

to cast aside our wonted hypocrisy and to surrender the fortresses which guard our communications with our Empire. It is not quite clear whether Gibraltar, Malta, the Suez Canal......

I Admit, None The Less, That These Concessions Were Made

grudgingly, and that in Paris Mr. Lloyd George and Monsieur Clemenceau did not treat their Italian colleagues with the respect due to the representatives of a Great Power and a......

It Is Forgotten Also That The Major Wrangle Between Italy

and the Allied and Associated Powers arose, not over something which had been promised to Italy by the Treaty of London, but over areas which, under that Treaty, had been......

The Italian People Have Been Taught To Forget These Great

rewards and to believe that they were promised vast colonial territories which have since been denied them by France and ourselves. They were not promised colonial territories,......

He Would Contend, Of Course, That France And Great Britain

failed to carry out their promises under the Treaty of London. Yet the United States was never a party to, and indeed highly disapproved of, that Treaty, and in accepting the......