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*ATICAN and Kremlin, for more in 1867, but it was not until after called in the than twenty years distant op- the break-up of the Austro-Hungari- sist him aga ponents, are at present playing lead- an Empire in 1918 that she was able ing parts on the diplomatic stage. to emerge effectively as such,
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KREM No Papal int While superficially their respective country in Italy's geographical posi- taken the fo activities appear to be unrelated, tion could be much more than a between M beneath the surface there has been a mere geographical expression while Nuncio, and close relation between the interven- the great mass of Austro-Hungarian Minister, M tion of Pius XII and of Josef Stalin. territory hemmed her in on the hand, and M Ten years ago, as part of the Cop- north and east. The treaties which tolic Delega cordat which put an end to some six settled the problems of the Great Britain's F ty years of coldness between the War or sowed the seeds of the next other. Vatican and Italian Government, war broke the Austro-Hungarian The activ Pope Pius XI agreed that the Pa- Empire into a number of hetero- priests hav pacy should take no active part in geneous states, and enabled Italy to the Kremlin ordinary diplomatic activity. This emerge as the Great Power of South- sires peace agreement has been abrogated, but ern central Europe.
not unilaterally.
Indeed, Signor Mussolini has been
DANGERS TO ITALY
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only too anxious to see the Pope in- The absorption of Austria into the tervene; and the Jesuit priest Nazi Reich, followed by the con- Father Tacchi Venturi, one of the quest of Czecho-Slovakia, revived, to many has s main intermediaries during negotia- a very great extent, the geographic as a politic tions which led ultimately to the mass which before 1918 constituted signing of the Concordat, has again the Austro-Hungarian Empire; been active between the Vatican and the Palazzo Venezia.
NOT IDEALOGIES BUT STRATEGY
should Hitler also absorb Yugoslavia --which is quite on the cards-that mass, Hungary being closely allied to the new bloc, will be almost
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As with the present desperate ef- pletely restored. Mussolini is suffi- forts to conclude an agreement be- cient of a historian and a realist to tween the Soviet and Britain, the understand the dangers to Italy in- activities of Father Venturi illus- herent in such a situation, Hence trate the axiom that, when war is his acquisition of Albania, which threatened, not ideologies but strate- was not only an insurance against and possibl gy is the dominating consideration,
Yugoslav participation with the de- There is a general impression that, mocracies but also a re-insurance stronger på should war break out, Italy will, in against an attempted occupation of launch his
Soviet. the common phrase, “rat” on Ger Yugoslavia by Germany.
Nevertheless, and particularly One of t many, just as she is said to have "ratted" on the Triple Alliance in since the Abyssinian War, he has teristics of
been forced for ideological reasons
in reply to the closene Actually, the word “ratted" is en- to move more and more closely to tirely misused in this connection; It. Germany. He cannot afford, openly, aly was fully within her rights in re- to break away just yet, at least until
In that b fusing to join Germany and Austria. he has secured the possibility of Hungary on the outbreak of the support from France and Britain. Hohenzoller onial devel Great War, for the treaty of alliance
THE TYROL
penetration specified that she should not be com- The restoration of the German- the policy
1914.
outlined to Kampf."
pelled to join in war against Eng- speaking Tyrol, now within the securing f land. Whether or no a similar Italian kingdom, to the Third Reich, leaving Ge reservation is attached to her agree- may be subordinated for the moment tional terri ment with Nazi Germany, it is most in Hitler's mind, but only for the volksraum- likely that she will refuse to act sake of expediency. Let Italy break words, peac ultimately with Hitler, and for the away from Germany, and the Tyrol free Germ same fundamental reasons of
may become the most prominent sion in the strategy.
European problem...
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DIFFERING INTERESTS
Mussolini knows that should Hit- When Italy joined the Austro-Ger- ler attack, Italy would probably lose; man alliance in 1880, Bismarck, al- her army is not strong enough to hence the c though he was a party to the agree withstand Germany; and in cur- his "deman ment, wrote in a private memoran- rent conditions Italy would receive ment with dum that her signature would be no assistance from Britain or Fran- are compar absolutely worthless for the main- ce, however clearly German aggres- the Fuehre tenance of peace; his view was that sion might be proved. Italy's interests were not naturally consonant with those of Germany and Austria.
Historically, the reason whs that Italian unity was forced in the teeth of Austria-Hungary, but while unity was secured, power was withheld. It aly became formally a Great Power
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