Concealing Histories Reill, Dominique Kirchner
The Fiume Crisis,
12/2020
Book Chapter
Some stories are just too good not to tell. And Fiume after World War I is one of them. It was a diplomatic debacle that paralyzed the Paris Peace Conference and led indirectly to Japan holding a ...mandate over part of mainland China. It helped cause the collapse of two Italian governments. It was one of the first places in Catholic Europe to give women the right to vote, not to mention having open homosexuals in charge of military units. Pirates procured food when supplies ran low. Anarchosyndicalists helped write the city’s new constitution. Celebrated artists and scientists came to