Corfu incident

The Corfu Incident was diplomatic emergency in 1923. Greece and Albania were quarelling over their boundary. The two nations took their dispute to the Conference of Ambassadors. Meanwhile the League of Nations had appointed a commission to determine the boundaries. Four Italian members of the commission were murdered on the Greek side of the border. Mussolini reacted violently, bombarding and occupying the Greek island of Corfu, demanding that Greece must pay an indemnity. Greece protested to the League of Nations - who took up the case. The ambassadors put forth terms favourable to Italy: Greece was to pay at once. The League accepted the pro-Italian decision but was internationally criticized - it submitted to the aggression of a big world power instead of protecting the smaller Greece from attack.