"THIS IS TOO BORING, DO SUG GEST SOMETHING NEW” OME German achievements in the first months SOME of the Great War: The violation of Belgium and Luxemburg. Massacre of civilian populations in Belgium and France. Bombardment by warships of open towns. Murder of civilians by air raids. Murder of civilians on the high seas. The introduction of liquid fire and poison gas. Enslavement of conquered civilian communities. "HAVE ANOTHER PIECE?" W ITHOUT a drop of blood flowing, and without the life of a single Italian being endangered, Italy could have secured the long list of concessions which I recently read to the House — territory in Tyrol and on the Isonzo as far as the Italian speech is heard, satisfactions of the national aspirations in Trieste, a free hand in Albania, and the valuable port of Valona. VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG. THE WOLF-TRAP Italy: "You would make me believe that I shall have my cub given back to me, but I know I shall have to fight for it" T HE discussion continued for months from the first days of December to March, and it was not until the end of March that Barion Burian offered a zone of territory comprised within a line extending from the existing boundary to a point just north of the City of Trent. In exchange for this proposed cession the Austro-Hungarian Government demanded a number of pledges, including among them an assurance of entire liberty of action in the Balkans. Note should be made of the fact that the cession of the territory around Trent was not intended to be immediately effective as we demanded, but was to be made only upon the termination of the European War. |