Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-05-27
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Correspondence Associaly} PGossl Rome, May Sendine pr an Am Ielicae commission to Italy b {. certain how hyst to establish political and eomeIrreial relations between line United States anl this country has been advised by the Amrjjc341 ambas.}- atiol. Thomas Nelson Page is stated | Lore. Mi Page E7as been GTaay yjn@ the 1 opp4a1uoitieS for the development of trade between the two co#ltrjrs.
 ! If the United States d0eg n"9 im- prove the poltIelal and td-,nc2a rc- latioa5 with this county, 1t will not 1 be l5a]y's fault. Indication of the eagerness ef italy to met the United l States more than half way has beon shown iN the large number 6f articles IDrinted ln the new paDcra lately n0S only urging but demanding that t&e Italian @oveinmen5 seize tHa OPpoe- tunity presented by thc entrance of 1 the United States nto WaF to cement l ijEeac international relations.
 Italy was more than three weeks later than the English and French goveIHnlnts in appointiUr 2 coHHia- ! sion to get to the United %tAtes to confei' regarding the W;.r haip to be cXtended, particularly in tho way of new loans and during his period im- poFtant newspapers like the Massa- zero, of Rome, and tho Gorriere doIa Sera, of Milan, printed series of att- clcs attacking the ministry for its sloWnass in creating this commission. These articles were not mere political attacks but written by patriotic men who desire closer relations with the United States and feel that the en- tire plisperity of Italy depends on these relations. Writers in the Cor riere della Sera pointed out that Italy formerly had been under German domi= Ination, was now threatened by Eng fish exploitation, and that her future as Q nation depended upon new and free relations with the United States.
 In this connection the American if rancier George 5, Page. whe has spent his entire business life in Italy, and who appreciates the business op- portunitias of the hation, said to The Associated Press:
 "Tho success of establishing lasting and profitable relations between the two countries depends entirely upon the personnel of the commission sent here by the United States and the trouble 1t takes to look into the busi- ness opportunities here"
 1 David Lubin of California, who es- tablished in Italy the International Instituteof Agriculture, said:
 "Ita1y and the United States were lnever so close together as during the Ipast few years This situation came about first through the Italian inmi- cration and then by the business fol- lowing hard upon that. There's 8 big chance now fo, Americans to trade here and sell here clothes, all the things sold in mail-order houses, ma chineIy, machinery narts. and manu- facturing outfits. The Italians have got started, the war has walked them up, ,has forced them to do things well and quickly. and all they need is a little. more help. What they can dc has been shown in the glove industry It use ed to be thought that the French were; the only people who could make gloves. In the needle work industry theyf have already begun to supplant the Jews around New York and they are showing up well in that line 1T their own country. Italy has Q big and sober population. All she need'
 is to put 1t to work, to teach it how to work, and for that reason American buisness organizers are necessary"