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 criticised - it submitted to the aggression of a big world power instead of protecting the smaller Greece from attack. 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. ... Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) led Italy from 1922 to 1943. ... Corfu (ancient and modern Greek Κέρκυρα, Kérkyra, Latin Corcyra; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an island of Greece, in the Ionian Sea, off the coast of Albania, from which it is separated by a strait varying in breadth from less than 2 to about 15 miles...

It is also the name of a secondary school band at Poole Grammar School, in England.