Were Italy's allies to blame for Cadorna's terrible defeat on the upper Isonzo? Probably that question will be discussed for a good many years to come. The Italians' own confidence in their military competence may be taken by the British and French writers as an excuse for British, French and American neglect, but it excuses the Allies only in a slight degree. It is true that General Cadorna had been regarded as having established his military competence. Nobody supposed that he would leave the strategically most important portion of his line inadequately defended. But the question of responsibility does not end there. This war is not Italy's war alone. It is the war of all the Allies, and a defeat of one of them is the defeat of all. If the fighting of the war is not coordinated, it is bound to result in local successes by the Germans, who coordinate everything--who control every detail and every portion of their far-flung line from a central and single source. --Boston Transcript.