Italy the Pioneer of Peace. By Lucy Re-Bartlett. (British Italian
League, 74 Grosvenor Street. 4d.)—Mrs. Re-Bartlett's address on the Treaty of Rapallo was well worth printing and deserves to be read, especially by those who wrongly suppose that the Southern Slays were forced to make an unfavourable frontier settlement. Mrs. Re-Bartlett points out that, though 400,000 Slays remain within the Italian frontier, over 2,000,000 aliens are included within the Serbo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom, mainly in order to give it a defensible frontier. Further, Italy has given up all Dalmatia except Zara, though the coast-towns like Spalato are ancient Venetian settlements which have given Dalmatia all the civilization that it possesses. The author reminds her readers that, but for the tremendous sacrifices made by Italy and her Allies, most of the Southern Slays would still be subject to Austrian and Magyar tyranny. The reminder should be unnecessary, but we have learned from painful experi- ence that the peoples whom we have freed from oppression rarely show any gratitude.
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