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Updated: June 26, 2025
Four days after, not far from this same spot, General Capello, the Commander of the Italian Second Army, decorated with the Silver Medal for Valour some of the heroes of the great victory. Among these was a civilian, a man over military age. It was Toscanini, Italy's most famous musical conductor.
Aug. 5 Germans begin fighting on Belgium frontier; Germany asks for Italy's help. Aug. 6 Austria declares war on Russia. Aug. 7 Germans defeated by French at Altkirch. Aug. 9 Germans capture Liege. Portugal announces it will support Great Britain; British land troops in France. Aug. 10 France declares war on Austria-Hungary.
In the meantime, H. had questioned our friend as to what had transpired in Paris within the last twenty-four hours. "England will probably join us and there is every possibility of Italy's remaining neutral," he announced, as we made our appearance. And then "You must come to Paris. You're too near the front here," he continued, as he piled wife, babies and servant into the taxi.
East and north the mountains that bound the plain, silent witnesses of Italy's great struggle, were hidden in the dusk, and the cypress sentinels stood up sharp and black against the darkening sky. The band had ceased to play and one heard only the chirp of grasshoppers, and across an orchard the soft sound of Italian speech, and the distant song of two soldiers in the village street.
The Germans have reduced the salient made by our attack. ITALY'S PLIGHT. But meanwhile, the enemy has struck at Italy, and Italy, reeling under his blows, is clamant for aid. Division after Division hurries off! STRENGTH falls, never again to ascend. The handicap is permanent.
In cultured circles on both sides of the Maritime Alps there is a strong feeling that the present international situation violates racial instincts and tradition; and, as we have already seen, Italy's attitude towards France is far different now from what it was in 1882.
"God bless you!" he answered. My son, for eight years I kept my word to him. We met daily almost, we ate and walked and talked together, we lived like David and Jonathan but without so much as a glance at the past. How he had escaped from Milan how he had reached New York I never knew. We talked often of Italy's liberation as what Italians would not? but never touched on his share in the work.
Nor was he greatly attracted by the wealth Theresa had inherited from her father, since her mother had gained her share in it by deserting the national cause during the period of Italy's abasement. No doubt there was Theresa's undoubted beauty; but that was evanescent, and the lady already showed signs of a too rapidly ripening maturity.
To him thus troubled at heart Venus, her bright eyes brimming with tears, sorrowfully speaks: 'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake.
The policy of the Italian government, like that of all other governments, was frankly nationalistic; whether it was also statesman-like may well be questioned indeed the question has already been answered by some of Italy's principal press organs in the negative.
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