Word: dalmatians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire upon the brave and patriotic followers of d'Annunzio and to shed the blood of her own sons. Even more, Italy has willingly complied with conditions that were profoundly distasteful to the national feeling, the election of Zanella and the evacuation of Sussak and of the third Dalmatian zone...
...terms on the problems connected! with the Port of Fiume,* Italy would1 reserve her " full liberty of action." The Treaty of London (1915) promised Italy a large area of continental Dalmatia. After the War there arose a conflict of interest between Yugo-Slavia and Italy. Yugo-Slavia wanted the Dalmatian coast and Italy was left in a quandary as to whether she would hold out for her rights under the Treaty of London or accept the Port of Fiume, which had not been promised to her, but which she then claimed. The question was further complicated by the action...
...action was recently brought against the Yugo-Slavian Government by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the late Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and wife of Prince Otto Windischgratz, over the island of Lacroma, near Ragusa on the Dalmatian coast...
According to the agreement, the Jugo-Slavs are to get most of the Dalmatian coast, and, as a further sop to their pride, concessions have been made on their western boundaries. Italy is to receive Zara and certain strategic islands in the Adriatic; while Fiume, although established by the agreement a free state, not even subject to the League, is virtually an Italian protectorate, since Italian influence is dominant in municipal affairs. The port itself will be used freely by both parties, however, so that the Jugo-Slavs come out of the affair rather well. Above all, the settlement bids...
After discussing the present alliance between Serbia and Greece, the questions of Skutari, Dalmatian and of Fiume, the pact of London, Italian occupation, of the armistice; the question of the Serbian ports, with much light thrown upon geography, nationality and history, Professor Coolidge spoke of the felling that exists between the Serbs and the Croats. The latter look on themselves as much more cultured and western, but are willing to be united with the Serbs without domination by them. The Serbs likewise fell a superiority in that they have fought and suffered and freed the others whom they sometimes look...