Italy at war and the allies in the west . lder ofItaly, holding between its jaws, as it were, theLake of Garda. To continue the simile, it willbe seen that the talons of the bird, formed bythe Istrian Peninsula, reach out over the Adri-atic in threatening proximity to Venice and theother Italian coast towns. It is to end the in- 31 32 ITALY AT WAR tolerable menace of that beak and those clawsthat Italy is fighting. There you have it in anutshell. Just as in France, since 1870, the nationalwatchword has been Alsace-Lorraine, so in ^^^JW. \ « w * s s^ 1 A cermanV0HEMUv\JT1^ EMPIRE >. *;jf**K
Italy at war and the allies in the west . lder ofItaly, holding between its jaws, as it were, theLake of Garda. To continue the simile, it willbe seen that the talons of the bird, formed bythe Istrian Peninsula, reach out over the Adri-atic in threatening proximity to Venice and theother Italian coast towns. It is to end the in- 31 32 ITALY AT WAR tolerable menace of that beak and those clawsthat Italy is fighting. There you have it in anutshell. Just as in France, since 1870, the nationalwatchword has been Alsace-Lorraine, so in ^^^JW. \ « w * s s^ 1 A cermanV0HEMUv\JT1^ EMPIRE >. *;jf**K a c—\ ft*Jhn 0 A USTRIA- HUNG A R Y * 1 -> X — VL* BOSNIA ^ 1/ S V-.^t > Italy, for upward of half a century, the popularcry has been Italia Irredenta—Italy Unre-deemed. It was a deep and bitter disappoint-ment to all Italians that, upon the formationin 1866 of the present kingdom, there shouldhave been left under Austrian dominion tworegions which, in population, in language, andin sentiment, were essentially Italian. These.
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