When it came down to it, Italy couldn’t offer enough to the rest of the WAllies to overcome the competing claims.
Hmm, one would think in realpolitik terms it would outweigh competing claims just by being bigger and one of the League Council permanent five
Dalmatia for instance had their South Slavs
Croatians were new to statehood, and the Serbs were being wanked by the creation of an enlarged Kingdom.
Albania was a flashpoint between the Italians and Greeks and the South Slavs
But here again, the Italians have a bigger population, economy and military than either. Plus the Greeks and South Slavs are already getting winnings proportionate to their size far greater than what Italy is getting.
South West Turkey was claimed and won by Ataturk
Well this one, yeah, if Italy was not going to win it for itself, no other powers were going to go do it for them.
Of course my whole line of thinking in this thread was not shaped by self-determination and ethnicity uber alles, and has possibly been a bit over-empathetic to what Italian nationalists were feeling at the time.
ObWI - President Hughes is POTUS instead and treats the Italians with the respect their apparent advantages and strength suggest they deserve. Italy gets Brenner Pass, Istria through Fiume, and a mandate over Albania. In Turkey, their expectations get shafted just like everybody else's (Greeks, British, French, Armenians, Russians) by the Turkish national revival.
Going forward is Italy a reliably non-revisionist state, and a natural ally of the leading powers of order and the status quo in Europe? IE, Britain and France.