Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-18
All Europe is watching the attitude
II Italy. as well as Roumania, in their


Gen. Zupelli at the suggestion of Gen
Cadorna. the chief of staff. who is ac-
credited with warlike tendencies.
Roumania. it is declared. would have
already modified for war but that
the 10th instant. was opposed. Prince
Ferdinand. his successor. is said to be
more in accord with the people. who
favor war. as does the Queen Marie.
A dispatch from Rome says: THE
course of events in Roumania is being
watched in Italy with interest. The
position Of the two countries has much
in common. Both possess unredeemed
communities under Aus.ro-Hunyarian
rule
King Charles reigned from 1865 as
Prince Charles Dom or Lord of Rou-
mania" until March %. 1881. when he
was proclaimed king. He married
Princess Elizabeth Won Neuwied us69D.
who is distinguished as a poetess under
the nom de plume" OF Carmen Sylvia.
The king possessed marked military
merit and commanded the Roumanian
army under the Grand Duke Of Russia
at Plevna
But the talents of the king were not
confined to the army, which he raised
to high standard. but he was also an
economist of more than ordinary gem
ius.
NJ. Charles Loiseau in his book.
81 Equilibre Adriatique," published in
1901, wrote on that sub
1taly's Two ject:
p.y;o;.. ITALY having two coasts
has two policies: One
Mediterranean. the other Adriatic.
The attraction of the first has turned
the Italian attention SO much that the
Adriatic was forgotten. 1taly's eyes
have been fixed on Tunis and Tripoli.
The Adriatic faded from Italy's vision,
Brindisi became a mere stopping place
for ships; Bari. Barletta and Ancona
only ports of coast traders rarely visit
ed by great vessels. Trieste mean
while, whose population was Italian
and Slovene. but whose government is
Germanic. colonfzed the Adriatic. Aus
trials ships plowed the eastern Mediter-
ranean as those of Bremen and HAM
burg coursed the Atlantic. The Aus
trian Lloyds are the best ships to the
orient, and the company. with it's hotels
at Corfu. touches 1T Albanian ports
ostensfbly to assure the working of its
postal service. There is Austrian
Hungarian steamship line to Fiume and
to saloniki. Constantinople, Piree and
Smyrna"
Austria. which of all the powers has
the least coast. is now augmenting her
military and commercial navy and is
building four dreadnoughts.
In the blare Of Lybic glory Italy
seemed barely conscious of what was
passing in the Adriatic; the Serbs de-
sired a port at Alessio or at ST. Jean
de Nfedua: Greece held out her hands for
Vallona Austria neditated occupying
Albanian ports. Thus Italy was being
slowly but surely shut out from a coast
the occupation Of which by others was
incontestably a menace.
From Vallona to the italian coast the
canal of Otrante is seventy-two kilo-
meters, just twice the distance from
Calais to Dover. Albania is the lock Of
the Adriatic.
1t is recalled that in the calabris and
Sicily there are colonies of AIbaniaas
descended from the companions OF
Scanderbeg. and from these sprang Fran
cesco Crispi When Albania was made
Independent she was courted by Austria.
heard in Italy. in the Calahria and in
Sicily.
In 1918 Italian policy became seriously
interested in Albania. Italy doubtless
intrigued with the Skipe-
Interest in tars. and there were CONVEX
A,h.. sat!ons with Essad Pasha.
in whom perhaps there is
a solution of the vexed question, for
Essad at this writing has returned to
Albania and with 10000 Albanian soldiers
is at the gates of Durazzo. Ital. per-
haps has given Essad back the
key with which to open the Albanian
lock. Essad Pasha will doubtless sue
coed to the throne of Albania under the
auspices of Italy.
The evolution of Italy is being
achieved by an element which has not
yet been definitely classified, because
1t is OF recent date and its advent on
the political stage has not been herald
ed Yet the nationalist party, not
withstanding its modest debut. has
commenced already to occupy the seri-
Gus attention of the Italian press OF all
parties and opinions. and especially
of the Catholic party, which has re-
sumed its place in Italian politics
An association. formed December ;,
1910. founded at the same time a mod
est weekly review. entitled Idea
Nazionale. The same association is a
political party with a vast horizon and
counts already 5000 adherents. 1t has
founded circulating library of polit-
ical literature for the instruction Of the
people of all classes: it has already
elected five or six deputies. and among
these NJ. Federzoni. at Rome October,
1870. and NJ Bevoine, at Turin June,
i.A1P- iaSSe a. c ufStiHS ufSneu DQl1tl-
clans. who propose, with the material
and machinery at their disposal to
work out for Italy what appears to be
vast evolution, designed to make
Italy great in the Mediterranean and
great in the Adriatic
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The program contemplates the discus
sion Of the best means of exerting infiu-
ence over the interior and
New Party's exterior interests of italy
n In the question of uni
posed to bring about the reconciliation
of the Catholic party with the constitu-
ton and the recrudescence of revolu-
tionary propaganda as manifested in the
Romagnas. In the foreign policy the ma
tionalists will discuss the war in Lydia
against the Turk and the unfortunate ill
feeling engendered against France as an
incident thereof: Adriatic affairs Trieste.
the orient, the Albania imbrogiio. etc.
Taking the people in the confidence of a
party and the discussion of questions of
which usually the people know little or
nothing is distinctive feature and very
attractive. This is evolution in its wild
est sense.
NJ. Loiseau in his work entitled ..Tbe
Italian Nationalist Party" cites NJ
Rocco, ardent nationalist as saw