Word: annuzio
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...spite of Gabrielle d'Annuzio and his hair-brained followers, in spite of the elephantiasis of Serbian national pretensions, in spite of the various "unalterable stands:" determinedly held by various parties, common sense has prevailed in the Adriatic. Fiume will not form part of a new Roman Empire reaching from Gibraltar to the Hellespont. Nor will it form part of a Pan-Slavia extending from the White Sea to the Alps. Undoubtedly enthusiastic extremists on both sides will be bitterly and vociferously disappointed. But the world at large is thoroughly relieved over the ending of the impasse. A buffer state...
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