It is still uncertain whether the Southern Slays will accept
the reasonable compromise made by the Allies in regard to the Adriatic frontier of Italy. The Allies have, of course, been much to blame in leaving the question unsettled for so many months, but they could scarcely have foreseen that the Southern Slays would display such a lack of good sense, to say nothing of gratitude, in their dealings with Italy. But for Italy and her Allies, the Southern Slays would still be under German ru But for Italy's anxiety to conciliate her neighbours, the Treaty of London would have to be carried out, and a considerable part of Dalmatia would be assigned to Italy. Now that Signor Nitti has agreed to abandon almost all the Dalmatian claims and to treat Fiume and Zara as free cities, the southern Slays have raised fresh diffichlties -about a small dilstrict" in Tattle and a couple of islands. It was high time that the Allies ended this interminable controversy by fi_xing the frontier. The Southern Slav Kingdom is large enough, we should have thought, to satisfy the most ambitious Serb or Croat.
