The Meeker herald., 1919-05-03
ORLANDO GOES HOME
WILSON OUTLINES STAND OF
PEACE coNoREeS
ROME CHIEFS PREPARE FOR WAN
TO HOLD p0oSEo9IoN
OF FiVME.

Paris, April 23.-Premisr Orlando OF
Italy addressed an official communi.
cation to Premier Clemenceau. presi-
dent Of the peace conference. saying
that a. a result Of the declaration BY
President Wilson the italian delesa-
ton had decided to leave Paris.
A partial text Of President Wilson's
statement ON the Adriatic question fol.
lows:
Elm view Of the capital Importance
Of the questions affected, and In order
10 throw all possible light upon what
10 Involved In their settlement, hops
that the following statement will con.
tribute to the final formation Of opin.
Ion and to satisfactory solution:
when Italy entered the war she en-
tered upon the basis Of definite priv.
ate understanding with Great Britain
and France, now known As the pact OF
London.
Since that time the whole face OF
circumstances has been altered. Many
other powers, great and small. have
entered the struggle. with no knowi-
edge Of that private understanding.
1.-THE Austro- Hungarian empire, then
the enemy Of Europe, and at whose
expense the pact Of London was to BE-
kept In the event Of victory. has gone
10 pieces and no longer exists.
Not only that, but the several parts
Of that empire, It 10 agreed now ~
Italy and all her associates. are to b.
erected Into independent states and
associated In = league Of nations, not
with those who were recently our
enemies, but with Italy herself and the
powers that stood with Italy In tie
great war for liberty.
Eve are to establish their liberty
A. well ss our own. They are to be
among the smaller states whose Inter.
rsts are nenceforth to he safeguardsd
a. scrupulously ~ the interests Of the
most powerful states.
1.-THE war was ended, moreover, BY
proposing to Germany an armistice
and peace which should bo founded on
certain clearly defined principles
which set up new order Of right and
Justice.
Upon these principles the peace
with Germany hns been conceived, not
only. bur formulated. Upon those
principles II will he effected. We can
not nsk the great body Of powers to
propose and effect peace with Austria
and establish new basis Of independ-
ance and right In the states which
originally constituted the Austro- Hun.
Earian empire and In the states Of the
Balkan group OH principles Of another
kind.
Eve must apply the same principles
to the settlement Of Europe In thoee
quarters that we have applied In the
peace with Germany.
1T waa upon the explicit avowal Of
those principles that the Initiative for
peace WINS taken. II 10 upon them that
the whole structure Of peace must rest.
III those principles are to he ad-
hered TO. Fiume must serve as the out
let Of the commerce. not Of Italy, but
Of the land to the north and northeast
Of that port-Hungary. Bohemia, Ru-
mania and thes tatcs Of the new Jugo-
Slav group.
THE interests are not now In ques-
tion, hut the rights Of peoples Of statea
new and old. Of liberated peoples and
pe0pleA whose rulers have never &C.
counted them worthy Of n right; above
oil. the right Of the world to peace and
70 such settlements Of interest As shall
make peace secure.
"These. aud these only, are the prln.
eiplss for which America has fought.
These and these only. are the princi.
plea upon which she can consent to
make peace. Only upon these prInci-
plsa, she hopes and believes, Will she
people Of Italy ask her to make peace"