Whereas Clemenceau successfully silenced discussion of the post-war order, Italian politics between 1915 and 1919 was torn apart by a clash between different visions of its place in the future international system.10 Under the terms of its pre-war alliances Italy in 1914 ought to have entered on the side of the Central Powers. Instead, in the London Treaty of 1915 it obtained generous promises of imperial gains from the Entente.
