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 legend is exaggerated. In the first place she obtained more than any other belligerent in actual value received. In the second place she could have acquired even further territory had she not been too weak at the time to hold it. It is not remembered today that Italy's army in 1919 was almost in a state of mutiny, that her troops had hurriedly to be withdrawn from the region of Adalia and that she was obliged to conclude with Albania an armistice of a most humiliating nature. Orlando, Sonnino and Tittoni knew very well that Italy at that date was not strong enough to enlarge her responsibilities. It is an historical error to attribute to the Italy of twenty years ago either the power or the ambitions which the Duce has now given her. It was only owing to Count Sforza's wise and temperate policy that a disaster was averted, and Signor \rare must know that this is true.
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