ts which she incurred
there on account of her unruly son d'Annunzio, and, likewise, that the
good Italianists who at the end of the Great War committed wholesale
thefts from the State warehouses should not be made to pay for it. With
all their guile and strength the Italians were endeavouring to avoid the
execution of her Treaty of Rapallo. "Italy is the one Power in Europe,"
says Mr. Harold Goad[70] who thrusts himself upon our notice, "Italy is
the one Power in Europe that is most obviously and most consistently
working for peace and conciliation in every field."

HOPES IN THE LITTLE ENTENTE

The complicated troubles, avoidable and unavoidable, that have been
raging in Central Europe after the War are being met to some extent by
the Little Entente, an association in the first place between Yugoslavia
and the kindred Czecho-Slovakia, and afterwards between them and
Roumania. The world was assured that this union had for its object the
establishment of peace, security and normal economic activities in
Central and Eastern Europe; no acquisitive purposes were in the
background, and since these three States now recognized that if they try
to swallow more of the late Austro-Hungarian monarchy they will suffer
from chronic indigestion, we need not be suspicious of their altruism.
It is perfectly true that the first impulse which moved the creators of
the Little Entente was not constructive but defensive; their great
Allies did not appear, in the opinion of the three Succession States, to
be taking the necessary precautions against the elements of reaction.
Otherwise they, especially France (which was naturally more determined
that Austria should not join herself to Germany), would not have
favoured the idea of a Danubian Federation, in which Austria and Hungary
would play leading parts. The Great Powers would also, if they had been
less exclusively concerned with their own interests, have handled with
more resolution the attempts of Charles of Habsburg to place himself at
the head of the present reactionary regime at Buda-Pest; and if it had
not been for certain energetic measures taken by the members of the
Little Entente it may well be doubted whether the Government of Admiral
Horthy, which does not conceal the fact that it is royalist--the king
being temporarily absent--would have required Charles to leave the
country. The Little Entente pointed out to their great Allies what these
had apparently overlooked, namely, th