To judge by the telegrams, d'Annunzio seems to have overstayed his welcome as one of the world's romantic guests. He was a hero during the war, and the admiration for him was certainly not confined to his countrymen. Then when Fiume became ay international question he took rank as a sort of superman: to his supporters in Italy he must have appeared almost a demi-god, while to others he was an inconvenient but none the less vivid personality. To-day all this is largely changed, his plots to upset the peace of the Adriatic are too serious to be treated merely as the heated aspirations of a fervent soul, and his last act, a declaration of war against Italy, can certainly not be tolerated. One Italian newspaper has described him as a dangerous and capricious man, but a much worse fate seems likely to await him. The world is becoming surfeited with d'Annunzio, and it will take very little more to get him described as a tiresome fellow. Then there will be an end to his} antics. Judging by the trend of things it would surely have been hetter had he never cast his thoughts upon Fiume but come tu the East with the Italian airmen.
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