The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-10-28
BY GIUSEPPE BEvIoNE
deputy in the Italian Parliament

deputy in the Italian Parliament.)
The echo which reaches America of
newspaper controversy now devel
oping in Italy over the war aims and
general war policy of the Italian gov
eminent might create impressions and
opinions contrary to the truth.
There are no essential differences
about what Italy should attain with
peace, either among the political par
ties which supported the war, or
among the members of the govern
ment, or between the government and
the political parties. Italy is practi-
cally the only nation of the entente
which, since the collapse of Russia. is
fighting Austria both by land and sea-
To think there is an Italian who would
like to spare Austria is to do an in
justice to the intelligence of the Ital
ian people.
1t is therefore a fact that Italy is
the only nation of the entente which.
from the first day of the war, has
fought solely against Austria, and
which today must oppose the whole
military and naval pressure of the
Austria-Hungarian empire, which, it
should not be forgotten, has a pOpu-
latiOn larger than Italy's by 10000
600 while its resources are greater by
far.
ASK Freedom of Oppressed.
That is not all. The policy for the
liberation of the nationalities Oppres-
sed by Austria was affirmed for the
first time in Rome. and it is from the
Italian government it receives today
its most vigorous support. The pact
OF Rome. signed in the Capitol by the
authorized representatives of all ma
tionalities oppressed by the Haps-
burgs-by Italians, Czecho-Slovaks,
JugO-Slavs, Poles and Rumanians,
constitutes the basis of Italy's Of
fetal policy against Austria.
The head of the JugO-Slav move
| ment, DR.. Trumbic, lives in Italy al
most continuously. He is received in
Rome as a true friend by SignOr Or
landO, president of the council; by
Baron SOnninO. the foreign minister.
and by General Diaz. the commander
in chief at the front. Since April,
when the relatives of the victims of
Austrian martyrdom held a meeting in
Rome, nothing has appeared in the It
allan newspapers less than friendly to
the JugO-Slav cause or TO its repre-
sentatiyes. After Austria's terrible
| defeat on the Piave. among all the eX-
pressiOns of joy and admiration at the
victory of Italian arms, none was
more ardent than that of Dr. Trumbic,
head of the Jugo-Slav movement.
Under such circumstances it is i'm
possible to speak of any real differ
ences in Italy among the organs of
public opinion, or among the mem
bers of the government in regard to
the nations war policy.
All Italy Agreed.
The agreement of the nation is es-
tablished in regard to the fundamen-
tai point: That all the peoples oppres-
sed by the many-colOred empire of the
Hapsburgs shall be liberated as a re-
suit of this war and made the arbiters
of their own destinies, according to the
indestructible principles of nationality
an the self-determination of peoples
which it is the glory of President Will
son to have placed at the basis of the
reconstruction of the world.
If any one in Italy at first hesitated
to adopt this course resolutely, it was
only because he saw the governments