achievement of which streams of their precious blood have
been poured out...." The Prince spoke of Italy in phrases to which we
have already alluded.[30] He reminded her of the Risorgimento and of the
principles with which her great sons had then been inspired. But the
Italian Press preferred to moralize in column after column on the
variety of the political groups of Yugoslavia, with the object of
showing to the world that they were a people of no cohesive capacities
and of no real national consciousness.

THE SLOVENE QUESTION

This matter of the frontiers had been very lucidly set before the Allies
with regard to Dalmatia and Rieka; it now remained for the Slovenes to
formulate their case. From the statement given by Dr. Trumbi['c] to the
Council of Ten in Paris we will take these extracts: "The province of
Gorica-Gradi[vs]ca may be divided into two different parts, both from an
ethnical and economic point of view. The western part, up to the line
Cormons-Gradi[vs]ca-Monfalcone, is economically self-supporting. If we
estimate the population on a language basis, there are about 72,000
Italians and 6000 Slovenes. Geographically it is simply the prolongation
of the Venetian plain. We do not claim this territory called Friuli,
which belongs ethnologically to the Italians. The rest of this province
to the east and the north of the Cormons-Gradi[vs]ca-Monfalcone line,
which comprises the mountainous region, is inhabited by 148,500 Slovenes
and 17,000 Italians, of whom 14,000 are in the town of Gorica, where
they constitute half the population.... The Slovenes are an advanced and
civilized people, acutely conscious of their racial solidarity with the
other Yugoslav peoples. We therefore ask that this district should be
reunited to our State.... Istria is inhabited by Slavs and Italians.
According to the latest statistics, there were in it 223,318 Yugoslavs
and 147,417 Italians. The Slavs inhabit central and eastern Istria in a
compact mass. More Italians live on the western coast, particularly in
the towns. They inhabit only five villages north of Pola, and their
populations have no territorial unity. Istria is territorially linked
with Carniola and Croatia, whereas it is separated from Italy by the
Adriatic, and therefore it ought to belong to the Yugoslav State....
Triest and its neighbourhood is geographically an integral part of
purely Slav territories. The majority of this town--two-thirds,
according to statistics--i