HAT is Austria and who is she? . . . She is a miserable spittoon.’ Thus contemptuously did Mussolini, almost exactly ten years ago, refer to the tiny nation to his north which, periodically since the ...

SIXTY-EIGHT years ago Napoleon III was called upon to make a momentous decision. Bismarck was then visibly preparing to launch that attack upon Austria which he had long been planning. Only if France ...