Georgia before the War formed part of the Russian Empire, and no country of the Entente had considered that unjust.  Further, as though the vast empire and the dominion of the Caucasus were not enough for Russia, the Entente with monstrous condescension had given to Russia Constantinople and the Straits and a huge zone in Asia Minor.  How could you take away from Russia a territory which was legitimately hers?  And vice versa, if Georgia and the other States of the Caucasus had sufficient strength to live autonomously, how can you dominate Aryan people who have risen to a notable state of development?

To go to Georgia inevitably meant war with Russia for Italy, and one, moreover, fraught with extraordinary difficulties.  In fact, later, the government of Moscow, as we have said, succeeded in invading as well as Georgia almost all the republics of the Caucasus.  And at San Remo, discussing the possibility of an expedition on the part of Great Britain, France and Italy to defend at least the oil production, after the report of a military committee presided over by Marshal Foch, the conclusion was quickly and easily arrived at that it was better to leave the matter alone.

Italy had already made an expedition into Albania, the reason for which beyond the military necessities for the period of the War has never been understood, except that of spending a huge sum without receiving the gratitude of the Albanians; an expedition in Georgia would have done harm, the consequence of which cannot be readily measured, it could, indeed, have meant ruin.

Even those minds that are most blinded by prejudice and hate recognize the complete failure of the Russian communist system.  The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat is reduced in practice to a military dictatorship of a communist group which represents only a fraction of the working classes and that not the best.  The Bolshevik government is in the hands of a small minority in which fanaticism has taken the place of character.  Everything which represented the work of the past has been destroyed and they have not known how to construct anything.  The great industries have fallen and production is paralysed.  Russia has lived for a long time on the residues of her capitalistic production rather than on new productions.  The productivity of her agricultural and industrial work has been killed by communism, and the force of work has been reduced to a minimum.  The Russian people are in straits which have no comparison, and entire territories are dying of hunger.  The communist regime in a short time has precipitated such damage and such misery as no system of oppression could achieve in centuries.  It is the proof, if any were necessary, that the form of communist production is not only harmful but not even lasting.  The economists say that it is absurd, but, given the collective madness which has attacked some people, nothing is absurd beyond hoping in the rapid recovery of the most excited nations.