While the internal position in Turkey has distinctly changed for
the worse, the war still goes on, and here it may be said that the situation is developing, even if slowly, yet none the less surely, to the advantage of the Italians, 'There has been renewed talk of an 'armistice. We are con- vinced that this is the best "way out" for Turkey. If the Turks would agree to an armistice it might be pro- longed till it hardened into a condition undistinguishable from peace. The advantage of such a process would be, of course, that peace would be secured without the Turkish Government having to lose face by admitting annexation. The apparent difficulty to such a scheme is that the Turks could not control the Arabs or force them to cease fighting. That is true, no doubt; but the Italians, we cannot help think- ing, would be prepared to deal with the Arab resistance, .provided it was no longer officially supported by Turkey, as "local disorder."
