THE WOLF-TRAP
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Italy: “You would make me believe that I shall have my cub given back to me, but I know I shall have to fight for it”
The discussion continued for months from the first days of December to March, and it was not until the end of March that Barion Burian offered a zone of territory comprised within a line extending from the existing boundary to a point just north of the City of Trent.
In exchange for this proposed cession the Austro-Hungarian Government demanded a number of pledges, including among them an assurance of entire liberty of action in the Balkans. Note should be made of the fact that the cession of the territory around Trent was not intended to be immediately effective as we demanded, but was to be made only upon the termination of the European War.
Signor Sonnino. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. May 25, 1915.
