The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean

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E. Alexander Powell. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean

The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean

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ILLUSTRATIONS

THE NEW FRONTIERS OF FREEDOM

CHAPTER I

ACROSS THE REDEEMED LANDS

CHAPTER II

THE BORDERLAND OF SLAV AND LATIN

CHAPTER III

THE CEMETERY OF FOUR EMPIRES

CHAPTER IV

UNDER THE CROSS AND THE CRESCENT

CHAPTER V

WILL THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE RECOVER?

CHAPTER VI

WHAT THE PEACE-MAKERS HAVE DONE ON THE DANUBE

CHAPTER VII

MAKING A NATION TO ORDER

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E. Alexander Powell

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The Italians defend their annexation of the Upper Adige by asserting that Italy's true northern boundary, in the words of Eugène de Beauharnais, written, when Viceroy of Italy, to his stepfather, Napoleon, "is that traced by Nature on the summits of the mountains, where the waters that flow into the Black Sea are divided from those that flow into the Adriatic." Viewed from a purely geographical standpoint, Italy's contention that the great semi-circular barrier of the Alps forms a natural and clearly defined frontier, separating her by a clean-cut line from the countries to the north, is unquestionably a sound one. Any one who has entered Italy from the north must have instinctively felt, as he reached the summit of this mighty mountain wall and looked down on the warm and fertile slopes sweeping southward to the plains, "Here Italy begins."

Italy further justifies her annexation of the German-speaking Upper Adige on the ground of national security. She must, she insists, possess henceforward a strong and easily defended northern frontier. She is tired of crouching in the valleys while her enemies dominate her from the mountain-tops. Nor do I blame her. Her whole history is punctuated by raids and invasions launched from these northern heights. But the new frontier, in the words of former Premier Orlando, "can be defended by a handful of men, while therefore the defense of the Trentino salient required half the Italian forces, the other half being constantly threatened with envelopment."

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