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Italian Lake. By the occupation of Corfu, off Epirus, the Italians strategically if temporarily realized their dream of turning the Adriatic Sea into an Italian Lake. Italy owns the whole of the Istrian peninsula in the North and by the occupation of Corfu she blocked the Straits of Otranto in the South. This meant that she could control practically the entire southbound trade of Central Europe, which passes through the ports of Trieste and Fiume...
Britain. The Ionian isles, of which Corfu is one, belonged in the 18th Century to the Venetian Republic. According to the terms of the peace of Campo Formio, the Republic was divided between France and Austria and the Ionian isles went to France. Later?in the Napoleonic Wars?Britain obtained possession of this group of islands and held them until 1863, when she ceded them to Greece, but, on account of its naval importance, the neutrality of Corfu was guaranteed by the Great Powers of the time. Italy, who was not at that time a united nation, could not sign...
...Greek Victory." The Greek Government (which had flatly refused Articles 4, 5 and 6 of the Italian ultimatum) accepted the terms of the Council of Ambassadors, but urged that Italy evacuate Corfu at once. Greece regarded the terms of the Council as " a Greek victory," implying that international settlement of the dispute does not violate Greek sovereignty. Rewards totaling $1,000,000 drachmas ($5,000) were offered for information on the murder...
...Italian Victory." Italy regarded the demands of the Council of Ambassadors as a "great victory," and despite earlier predilection for isolated action, she seemed content to let the Council act. It was understood Italy would probably occupy Corfu and adjacent islands until the payment of the indemnity by Greece, which cannot be made until after the Commission of Inquiry have presented their report and the Council of Ambassadors have fixed the total...
...Fiume, subject of debate since November, 1918, be administered by a mixed commission of Italians, Yugo-Slavs, and officials of the Fiume Free State Government, controlled by Italians. Mussolini "magnanimously" gave Belgrade until Sept. 15 to ratify her delegates' decision. But circumstances have changed. Italy has seized Corfu. If Italy remains at Corfu, Yugo-Slavia will be so hemmed in that she cannot afford to allow her rights in Fiume to be abandoned to the master of the black-shirted legions, who first scowls at Greeks and Slavs from his massive desk at the Palazzo Chigi, and then...