The Italian Government have resigned, but out of the crisis
a new Government will certainly arise enthusiastically resolved to carry on the war vigorously to a happy ending. Last Saturday the Govern- ment demanded a vote of confidence and were defeated by thirty- nine votes. The Times correspondent says that Signor Salandra is believed to have ridden for a fall. His remark that " better-prepared defences would have stopped the Austrians at a greater distance from the Venetian Plain " was thought to be unhappy, whether it was consciously intended to be so or not. It must be noted—for it is an excellent sign—that the critics of the Government were those who were most strongly in favour of Italy coming into the war. The new Interventionist bloc known as the " Democratic Alliance " could hardly be persuaded from voting against the Government in March. But this time they brought about Signor Salandra's downfall because they felt that he was not sufficiently in touch with the opinion of the country.
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