(Mussolini, circular to Italy's representatives abroad. Rome, August 3~, 1923.) "In the circular issued to-day Signor Mussolini makes a clear distinction : there are the reparations due to Italy and those due to the Conference of Ambassadors. The Premier cannot agree_ to the substitution of an assembly of which Italy forms only a part, for Italy herself, in making the demand for the reparations which are expected for Italy. The massacre of the Italian mission is a blow primarily at Italy and only secondarily at the other Powers. . . . Signor Mussolini declares that the one action does not exclude the other, but that the two must not be confused or superposed." (Semi-official comment, August 31.) At Paris, on September 27, the Conference of Ambassadors imposed on Greece the payment of 50 million lire to Italy. The Italian troops evacuated Corfu. But the assassins who killed the Italian mission still remained unpuni~hed. At Geneva, on September 28, Viscount Ishii, the President of the Council, said that -"the members of the Council of the League of Nations are in agreement in recognising that every controversy between members of the League which is susceptible of producing a rupture, comes within the sphere of activity of the League, and that if such controversy proves incapable of regulation either through diplomatic channels or by arbitral procedure or under a judicial decision, it is the duty of the Council to take cognisance of the matter, within the limits of Article 15 of the Pact." The occupation of Corfu procured no benefit for Italy; still less did her unworthy treatment of the League of Nations. l\f uch more fruitful and valuable will be her policy of agreement with J ugoslavia concerning Fiume, which was advocated all along by the reviled '' renunciators'' and fiercely obstructed by all the Nationalists, among 55 Biblioteca Gino Bianco
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