ion and calumny." Well, on referring to Mrs.
Re-Bartlett's article I find that there is no mention of
chocolates, and I apologize; presumably the children were
crowding round their adored _Capitano_ in order to thank him
for the bridges and waterworks which were being built in
Dalmatia.]

[Footnote 58: During the Italian occupation, said Professor
Salvemini, teachers, doctors and priests were deported or
expelled from the country, while the Italian Government had to
dissolve 30 municipal councils out of 33, so that at the head
of the communes were Italian officials and not properly elected
mayors. Moreover, all liberties were suppressed. No Slav
newspapers, no Slav societies were permitted, and 32 out of 57
magistrates were dismissed--these methods being due not to
cruelty or folly, said the Professor, but to the necessity of
keeping order by forcible means in a country which was wholly
hostile.]

[Footnote 59: November 13, 1920.]

[Footnote 60: November 15, 1920.]

[Footnote 61: This, of course, did not meet with the approval
of Signor d'Annunzio. He made numerous pronouncements with
regard to his inflexible desires, saying that, if necessary, he
would offer up his bleeding corpse. And his resistance to the
Italian Government did not confine itself to rhetoric. During
his usurpation of Rieka this man had done his country grievous
harm. It was not only that he held her up to the smiles of the
malicious who said that she could not keep order in her own
house, but he was guiding the people back to barbarism. When
sailors of the royal navy deserted to his standard, he knelt
before them in the streets of Rieka at a time when from Russia
Lenin was inciting the Italian Communists to revolution and to
the conquest of the State. He refused to deal with Giolitti,
even as he had rejected the advances of Nitti. But the aged
Giolitti grasped the problem with more firmness, which was what
one might expect from the statesman who, after his return to
power, had leaned neither on the industrial magnates of Milan
nor on their Bol[vs]evik antagonists. Giolitti was resolved to
put an end to the nuisance of d'Annunzio; in no constitutional
State is there room for a Prime Minister and such a
swashbuckler. The Nationalists of Italy were furious when they
perceived that the Prem