Consistently with Honour'; Great Britain, the League of Nations and the Corfu Crisis of 1923

The crisis arising out of the murder on Greek soil of General Tellini, the Italian president of the allied commission delimiting the GraecoAlbanian border, and the consequent Italian occupation of Corfu on 31 August 1923, confronted the League of Nations with what was recognized as being its first major test. It was generally accepted that the Greek government had a clear responsibility to ensure the safety of the representative of a foreign power on its territory, and was thus liable to make substantial apologies and reparation to Italy and probably also to the allied Conference of Ambassadors whose agent Tellini had been.1 But it was also felt that Mussolini's action in confronting Greece with a patently unacceptable ultimatum with a twenty-four-hour time limit and then proceeding to the bombardment and seizure of an undefended island was an outrage comparable with the behaviour of Austria-Hungary towards Serbia after Sarajevo in

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• France and the Corfu‐Fiume Crisis of 1923

  Open Access•Joel Blatt, Joel H Blatt•Historian•1988

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