Today -100: September 7, 1923: As high-handed as it pleases

At the League of Nations, Albania says the Italians could not have been killed by Albanians because the bodies were not robbed.

The NYT thinks that Mussolini’s slightly less bellicose rhetoric against Greece is due to having finally read the League of Nations Covenant and realized that Italy could be put under a trade interdiction. “Fascismo may be as high-handed as it pleases within the boundaries of Italy...” High-handed? that’s the phrase you’re going with? “But it cannot project its arbitrary measures into international relations.”

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