She had been barred in her western movement by the rise of the Irredentist party in Italy, and consequently had to withdraw behind the frontiers of Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria.
My own dream of the new map was to make "Balka"-- the Balkan Federation--take in ultimately all south of a line drawn from the Isle of Serpents to Aquileia.

There would--must--be difficulties in the carrying out of such a scheme.

Of course, it involved Austria giving up Dalmatia, Istria, and Sclavonia, as well as a part of Croatia and the Hungarian Banat.

On the contrary, she might look for centuries of peace in the south.

But it would make for peace so strongly that each of the States impinging on it would find it worth while to make a considerable sacrifice to have it effected.