ABSTRACT
In the years following the First World War, when a Middle Eastern peace settlement was being negotiated, Italy was particularly anxious to secure the gains promised to her by her allies in return for entering the war on the allied side. Increasingly she felt that these gains were being denied to her, while her allies, Great Britain and France, collected their substantial winnings in the Middle East. Continually she tried to climb on the bandwagon, where she had been promised a place, only to have her knuckles rapped by its British driver. By the time she had worn down British resistance to her claims, she was herself losing interest in them, and the reluctant offer to her, when finally made, never led to anything.
