. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . uld justly callon her ally Italy for aid, remembersthese provinces, that Italy now triesto put her foot upon the breast ofdistressed Austria and after numer-ous attempts at extortion tears intoshreds the agreement of thirty yearsand joins the enemies of her allies,to properly describe such actionwords fail. The Italian government asserts,however, that the principal cause ofher betrayal of Austria, and conse-quently of Germany also, was thesending of an ultimatum by Austriato Servia, by which the balance ofpower in the Balkans had been dis
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . uld justly callon her ally Italy for aid, remembersthese provinces, that Italy now triesto put her foot upon the breast ofdistressed Austria and after numer-ous attempts at extortion tears intoshreds the agreement of thirty yearsand joins the enemies of her allies,to properly describe such actionwords fail. The Italian government asserts,however, that the principal cause ofher betrayal of Austria, and conse-quently of Germany also, was thesending of an ultimatum by Austriato Servia, by which the balance ofpower in the Balkans had been dis-turbed and Italys dignity impairedand her interests damaged. It is still fresh in the minds ofall that when Austria-Hungary foundit necessary to send an ultimatum toServia and as a result of its rejec-tion was forced to declare war, shepublicly obligated herself to main-tain the status quo in the Balkans,and declared that the punitive ex-pedition against Servia would not beused for the purpose of acquiring ter-ritory. ITALYS POSITION IN THE WORLD WAR. EVOLUTION BY THE LAW OF WAR As Austrias ally Italy, it is onlyreasonable to assume, ought to haveaccepted Austrias declaration seri-ously and placed absolute faith in for the sake of argument let usgrant that Austria was not deserv-ing confidence, and that Italys dig-nity had really been impaired andher interests damaged. This beingthe case no alternative presented it-self, if Italy had been honest, thanto cancel the treaty and forsake herallies. But Italy preferred to complete herpreparations for war under the pro-tection of the Triple Alliance, andwhen ready to place the dagger atAustrias breast, despite the fact thatonly two years ago she signed awritten agreement whereby a twelvemonths notice of withdrawal fromthe treaty must be given. Sir Grey is rejoicing. He takespride in his pupils at the Tiber whohave accomplished an act of diplo-matic brigandage which disturbs therest of real statesmen such as Ca-vour, Minghetti
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