ITALY: Recall to Respect

Italy's Foreign Minister was busy last week. Growing more & more nervous over his mounting influence in Austria and Hungary, Jugoslavia topped off a two-month press attack with a violent outburst against Fascist Italy and all its works. Published were entirely imaginary stories of strikes and riots in Milan and Turin in which dozens were supposed to have been killed. The semi-official Vreme of Belgrade touched the sorest spot of all with a sneering description of Italy's Wartime defeat at Caporetto and ugly references to the cowardice of the Italian army.

That did...

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