ABSTRACT
In R. W. Seton-Watson's journal, The New Europe, printed in London during World War I, Tomas Masaryk published an article in February 1917 entitled "The Future Bohemia." Sidney Sonnino, Foreign Minister during the First World War, fought a stubborn rear guard action during the last two years of the conflict to prevent the Allies from promising independence to the Slavic peoples of the empire. The fact that the Movimento Sociale Italiano campaigned in early 1994 by calling for territorial demands to be made that would have been unimaginable several years ago, was the fault of the dithering of Italian diplomacy in 1993. Italy tried to seize the former in October 1940 but required German military assistance to overcome stubborn Greek resistance; Mussolini then had to yield much of the power in the government of the defeated country to Germany. The territorial dispute having been solved, Italy was free to formulate a policy toward Yugoslavia gradually reversing its earlier positions.
