Angrier and angrier grew Benito Mussolini last week as that testy old diplomatic hornet from France, M. Louis Barthou, zipped around the Balkans. It is II Duce's policy to keep Austria and Hungary in hopeful dependence upon Italy hoping that Rome will give both countries economic assistance and help obtain revision of the post-War treaties which brand them as beaten nations cramped within reduced frontiers. Everywhere Foreign Minister Barthou went he declared that France will block any such revision. He scoffed, by implication, at Italy's power to bring an altered settlement or...
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