6io The Review of- Reviews. 



should be checked. The Balkan League of all Italian statesmen, who wrote 



is therefore serving Italy's ends equally in 1871 : " The Slav populations will 



with our ow^n. To base Italian policy predominate over Turkey, and the 



upon friendship with Austria is building Turkish Empire is doubtless condemned 



a house upon sand, and doing so in to dissolution before the Austrian 

 violation of the national traditions and Empire ; but the fall of one will be the 



popular sentiment. As is shown else- signal for the approaching fall of the 



where in this number, the question of other. The x\ustrian Empire is an 



Austria's disappearance as an empire administration, not a State ; but the 



is only a question of a comparatively Turkish Empire in Europe is a foreign 



short time, and when it comes it must encampment, isolated on other people's 



inevitably bring disaster upon any territory, without any community of 



country dependent solely upon relations faith, of tradition, of interests or 

 with Austria for her foreign policy, activities, non-agricultural and without 

 Whatever the actual government in administrative capacity, in times of 



Rome may intend to do, there is no yore surrounded by the Greeks, to- 



question that public opinion in Italy day by the Armenians scattered on the 



has decided to prefer friendship with Bosphorus, who are hostile to the 



the Balkan League and the advance- government they serve. Unyielding 



ment of Italy's real interests to slavish because of their Mussulman fanaticism, 



subservience to the panic-stricken states- the conquering race, hemmed in and 



men of Vienna. Vincenzo Morello, stifled by the Christian population, has 



writing in the semi-official Tribuna, puts not given to the world for more than a 



the Itahan view very clearly when he century either an idea, a poem, or an 



sa-ys: J' li the fait nouvelle oitheBa.\ka.n industrial discovery. And this race 



League and the relative disruption of numbers less than 2 millions of men, 



Turkey creates new situations and new who are surrounded by 13 or 14 millions 



responsibilities, especially for us, in view of people of the European race, Slavs 



of the future, is it not useful and neces- or Greeks, thirsting for life, aspiring to 



^ -^sary_^o^ us to regulate our actions insurrection, and the only thing needed 



according to our permanent interests, to bring about this insurrection and 



independent of the momentary fortune convert it into rapid victory is an 



of this or that group of Powers ? ' ' agreement among the three elements 



Should the Italian states- who to-day are still jealous about the 



Mazzini's Hicn think such a polic\^ old hatreds engendered by war and 



Prediction. involving the throwing oppression. The mission of Italy is to 



over of the Triple propose and make possible the basis of 



Alliance and the making of a new this agreement." Mazzini's prophecy 



friendship which must inevitably bring has been fulfilled to-day,' save that 



Italy into the peace entente rather Italy did not seize her opportunity to 



than the war triplice, a new and assist in its fulfilment. It is not yet, 



startling idea, they have only to recall however, too late for her to benefit 



the historic letter of the greatest by it. 



