Rene Albrecht-Carrie

The Italian Treaty

TALY has been aptly described as I being either the smallest of the great powers or the greatest of the small powers. The extent of her power, generally understood and adequately appraised by those in charge of the direction of her foreign policy, was from the time of her emergence as a nation the determining factor of that policy. The result was that Italian diplomacy played a skillful and on the whole successful role, guided by such broad and sound principles as, for example, the avoidance in any event of a conflict with Great Britain. This cautious and well-attuned diplomacy