The Greek Government accepted these proposals and all seemed to
be well when reports began to arrive from Italy that Signor Mussolini did not understand, as almost everybody else did, that the solution committed him to an immediate withdrawal from Corfu. When we go to press on Thursday, he seems firmly to have adopted the position that there can be no withdrawal from Corfu till Greece has discovered the assassins and their accomplices and has punished them, and has paid the indemnity required by the Court of Justice. Signor Mussolini, in short, is saying about Corfu what M. Poineare has so long been saying about the Ruhr. M. Poincare, we fear, is the model. In these circumstances we cannot but feel extremely anxious, particularly as the question of Fiume is connecting itself with that 358 of Corfu, as last week we expressed the dread that it might. Signor Mussolini has sent a rigorous message to the Jugo-Slavs that by Saturday they must give him a satisfactory answer about Fiume.
