Painting by Tone Kralj "Rapallo"

It symbolises the most trying period of the Slovenes of Primorska and Istria, when Fascist Italy tried to eradicate the multinational character of the Julian March with its denationalisation legislation. Italy, symbolised by a Roman she-wolf, is reaching after the Slovene national body, symbolised by a woman wearing Slovene national colours; the figure of Mussolini can be seen in the left corner. The territory on the eastern side of the Adriatic was promised to the Italians with the Treaty of London of 1915 (hence the bloody coins at the bottom of the painting), as payment for neutral Italy entering the war on the side of the Entente Powers. The fate of this territory was sealed when the treaty between Italy and Yugoslavia was signed in the town of Rapallo, as is written out on the masks bearing the designations of the countries that had decided the fate of the Slovenes of Primorska and Istria at the peace conference.