World War I

Peaceless Europe

In this book are embodied the ideas which, as a parliamentarian, as head of the Italian Government, and as a writer, I have upheld with firm conviction during the last few years.

Chapters

7. Chapter 7

The European War was the consequence of a long series of movements, aspirations, agitations. It cannot be denied, and it is recognized by clear-thinking men like Lloyd George, t...

13. Chapter 13

As everyone knows, the plebiscite of March 20, 1921, in spite of the violence and notwithstanding the officially protected brigandage, resulted favourably to Germany. Out of 1,2...

10. Chapter 10

General Ludendorff recently made certain declarations which have a capital importance, since they fit the facts exactly. He declared that a war of reconquest by Germany against...

15. Chapter 15

In order to guarantee the payments an inter-allied army--in reality a Franco-Belgian army--occupies the left bank of the Rhine, and is stationed at the bridgeheads. Germany is c...

12. Chapter 12

The territories taken from Hungary represent two-thirds of her mineral wealth; the production of three million quintali (300,000 tons) of gold and silver is entirely lost; the g...

18. Chapter 18

A great step towards peace may be made by admitting at once all ex-enemy States into the League of Nations. Among the States of European civilization millions of persons are unr...

8. Chapter 8

I should like to ask why Germany, if she accepts the terms we consider just and fair, should not be admitted to the League of Nations, at any rate as soon as she has established...

1. Chapter 1

In this book are embodied the ideas which, as a parliamentarian, as head of the Italian Government, and as a writer, I have upheld with firm conviction during the last few years.

9. Chapter 9

If Germany had not signed she would have suffered less loss. But at that time conditions at home with latent revolution threatening the whole Empire, made it imperative to accep...

14. Chapter 14

These absurd legends, formed during the War, were not forgotten, and there are even now many who believe in good faith that Germany can pay, if not twenty or twenty-five milliar...

4. Chapter 4

After the rectification of the Italian frontier according to the principles of nationality, the peoples of Austria-Hungary were to agree on the free opportunity of their autonom...

16. Chapter 16

Why have neither France nor Italy yet started to pay some of their debt? Having won the War, France has had all she could have--fertile territories, new colonies, an abundance o...

5. Chapter 5

The restitution of Alsace-Lorraine (the only formal claim advanced by the Entente in its war programme) has deprived Germany of the bulk of her iron-ore production. In 1913 Germ...

11. Chapter 11

Certainly the Allies could not suggest anything unfriendly to Italy; but the effect of the expedition was to put Italy directly at variance with the government of Moscow, to lau...

17. Chapter 17

Russia sooner or later will recover. It is an illusion to suppose that Great Britain, France and Italy can form an agreement to regulate the new State or new States that will ar...

2. Chapter 2

When I was Minister of Commerce in 1913 I received a deputation of German business men who wished to confer with me on the Italian customs regime. They spoke openly of the neces...

3. Chapter 3

Finally, Continental Europe is on the eve of a series of fresh and more violent wars among peoples, threatening to submerge civilization unless some means be found to replace th...

6. Chapter 6

Italy, as M. Tardieu says very plainly, carried no weight in the Conference. In the meetings of the Prime Ministers and President Wilson _le ton était celui de la conversation;...

19. Chapter 19

(c) Twenty milliards--after the payment of the debts in the second category to be taken over by Germany--as part of the reimbursement for countries which have made credits to th...

20. Chapter 20

PALESTINE, Treaty of Sèvres and Paper currency, Germany's pre-and post-war Paris, an unsuitable meeting place for Conference Peace Conference in Supreme Council at welcomes Pres...