of mild invective and
more deliberate criticism manifested by Sonnino and
Salandra, entitle these Ministers to the lasting gratitude
of their country. For it should be borne in mind that they
had against them not only the Senate, the Chamber, a section
of the Press, the "cream" of the aristocracy, the puny sons
and daughters of the leaders of the Risorgimento, but also,
strange to say, the majority of Italian diplomatists in the
capitals of the Great Powers, one of whom actually fell ill
at the thought that Italy was about to fight shoulder to
shoulder with the State to which he was accredited. It would
be interesting to psychologists to learn how this
diplomatist and one or two of his colleagues felt when a few
days later they were serenaded by enthusiastic crowds whom
they were constrained to address.

Are the Allies Winning?

In a Doubting Thomas article headed "Are We Winning?" the anonymous
"Outis" in The Fortnightly Review concludes that "the Allies are
winning, but very slowly. If their conquest is to be assured, Great
Britain's task is to mobilize every soldier and every workman, in
order to prove that whoever may fail, she at least does not intend to
desist until the final triumph is won." Moreover, the conquest must be
in the West "if anywhere," and he looks somewhat askance at the
Dardanelles adventure:

A good many competent authorities have disliked the idea of
the Dardanelles expedition, on the strength of a general
principle applicable to all military operations. It is said
that in every war there is one distinct objective, and that
that should never be neglected for any subsidiary
operations. Thus, in the present instance, our main effort
is to drive the Germans out of France and Belgium, and then
to attack them in their own territory. Anything which
interferes with this or throws it, however temporarily, into
the background, is held to be unwise, because it leads to
the most dangerous of results in warfare--the dissipation of
forces, which, if united, would win the desired success, but
if disunited will probably fail. Thus we are told that we
must not fritter away our energies in enterprises which,
however important in themselves, are not comparable with the
one unique preoccupation of our minds--the conquest of
Germany in Europe.

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