Last week an old man and an old issue turned up again in Italy. The man was ex-Premier Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, 84. The issue was the control of Fiume and the Istrian peninsula. The two had appeared together before in history.
At Versailles Orlando had been one of the Big Four with Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau. Then Wilson had stubbornly refused to grant Fiume to Italy. Orlando had failed to overcome Wilson's objection, and the resentful Italians had driven their Premier into political oblivion.
Now, all but forgotten by the world, Orlando puttered at...
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