Treaty of London

Crew House gladly recognized the value of such loyal cooperation, of which those who were concerned in its work still retain grateful memories.

End of Section 1 Read by Patrick McAfee Evanston Section 2 of Secrets of Crew House The Story of a Famous Campaign By Campbell Stewart This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Read by Patrick McAfee Chapter 3 Operations Against Austria-Hungary Propaganda's Most Striking Success Anti-German Habsburg Races The Secret Treaty of London Problem of the Adriatic Importance of the Rome Congress Lord Northcliffe's Policy Against Austria-Hungary Formation of an Inter-Allied Propaganda Commission and its Effective Operations The Final Triumph Little time was spent in deciding that of all enemy countries Austria-Hungary would be most susceptible to propaganda.

With the assistance of such authorities as Mr. Wickham Steed and Dr. Seton Watson, Lord Northcliffe was soon able to propose a line of sound policy for the sanction of the Foreign Office.

It is strange that determined action on some such lines had not been initiated previously by the Allied governments.

The nationalities chiefly affected were the Czechs and the Southern Slavs.

There were also lesser numbers of Italians, Poles, and Romanians, whom it was intended to place under their own national governments of Italy, the state of Poland, then projected and now established, and Romania, which countries marched with the districts of Austria-Hungary inhabited by their respective races.

Operations were comparatively straightforward in every case except that of the Southern Slavs, in which the secret treaty of London of April 1915 presented a serious obstacle.

At the beginning of 1918 few people realized the difficulties thus created, but since the cessation of hostilities the Adriatic question has loomed largely in the public view of international relations and is rightly regarded as one of the most troublesome problems of world politics.

In later years the hope of raising cotton in Somaliland, especially in the Juba Valley, stimulated new interest in the country.

Moreover, in July 1924 Italy obtained from Great Britain, in fulfillment of Article XIII of the London Pact of 1915, a strip of thirty-three thousand square miles on the western bank of the Juba, formerly part of British East Africa.

Thus more potential cotton land was secured.

In 1925 it was announced also that the Fascist government of Somaliland had begun the military occupation of the sultanates of Hobyo and Majeerteen in northern Somaliland which had remained practically independent.