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ITALY 

From France we proceeded to Italy by way of Ventimille and on to Rome. The splendid weather which we had encountered all along the Riviera changed to a colder temperature and a more clouded sky, although it was not nearly so bad as it had been in Paris. 
Italy came out of the struggle against the central empires with more threatening internal and external questions than any of the other nations of Europe. Italy was promised all sorts of things to induce her to enter the War, and, no matter what the moral rights or wrongs of the question may have been, Italy considers that she was very shabbily treated at the conclusion of peace. She gained the summits of the Alps, particularly in the Trentino region, but the accession of territory which she claims was promised her on the Dalmatian coast, in Albania, and in the African colonies fell way below what she expected. She is partioularly bitter toward France because France opposed her territorial expansion more than any other country. England made some territor-

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