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Time was when such news would have been the signal for a general alarm. Incidents like the burning of Smyrna or the Corfu assassinations monopolized the front pages of the large journals for days, while editorial Cassandras warned their readers that they were standing upon the brink of another world conflict...
...Corfu. "Here was a case of a bitter quarrel between two nations caused by an occurrence of the most deplorable character, the murder of four Italian officers on Greek territory. It was the kind of case which in the past had often produced, if not actual war, at any rate prolonged embitterment of international relations. Yet in a very few weeks the matter was adjusted, partly by the League and partly by another international body, the Conference of Ambassadors...
...Poland and Lithuania, Poland and Germany, Jugo Slavia and Albania, and Italy and Greece have all been satisfactorily settled," he declared, "and war, which threatened in each case, has been averted. I have never seen a time so intense, a time so difficult to resist hysteria, as when the Corfu question was being discussed. There has been much comment in regard to the inability of the League to handle this dispute, but I have never heard an intelligent person say that the world would have been better if the League had not existed at that time. This quarrel...
...Corfu. On a question involving a major power, the Council of the League was noncommittal. It did not, in the slightest degree, condemn Italy for the Corfu business. (Last September Mussolini bombarded Corfu in retaliation for the assasination of Italian officers in Albania, due, he said, to the negligence of the Greeks. He refused interference by the League. Did he thereby violate the Covenant of the League? The Council of the League, in order to keep Italy's friendship, now says...
Said Mussolini: "The understanding between Italy and Russia is excellent. During the Corfu incident the Russian press was the only press of the whole world which was sympathetic toward Italy...