Tingling little shocks rippled, last week, along the diplomatic cobweb that unites those wary spiders, the foreign ministers of the Great Powers. Cause: at Rome the Italian Government ratified, last week, the Franco-British-Italian-Japanese Treaty of Paris (1920).
The treaty upholds and guarantees Rumania in her seizure of the onetime Russian province of Bessarabia after the World War. Britain has signed (1922); France signed (1924); and now the signature of Italy leaves only that of Japan necessary to make the treaty binding.
Therefore, last week the frail cobweb relations between the Black Spider at...
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