ABSTRACT
In the early 1920s, a series of disputes affected the northern shores of the Mediterranean. The dispute between Greece and Turkey had roots quite as deep as the dispute between Poland and Russia, and the two disputes had many features in common. As the Graeco-Turkish war developed, considerable differences could be discerned between attitudes of the French and British governments. Young Turks objected very strongly to the Treaty of Svres, which had recently been signed by their country's government, which ceded nearly all the non-Turkish parts of the Ottoman Empire. The Italian sailors bombarding Corfu in 1923 are mounted on gondolas and dressed as gondoliers. The cartoon may be meant to suggest that the Italian venture was an absurd reaction to the putative insult to national honour presented by the murder of Italian representatives who had been assisting in demarcation of the Graeco-Albanian frontier.
