New-York tribune., 1919-04-27
b RESIDENT WILSON has
attempted to cut the Fiume
tangle. The statement in

tangle. The statement in
which he assigns the city
and port of Fiume to the Jugo-
Slavs was countered by the Italian
Premier, Orlando, with the an
nouncement that he would place the
issue before the Italian people, who,
he added, "will express themselves"
Clews as to the Italian popu-
lar mood are furnished by ut
terances of Italian publicists and
newspapers. Thus the Rome CORE
spondent of the Milanese daily, al
Popolo d'ItaIia," writes under the
headline "Fiume Must Be Italian:
"On this one point the entire public
opinion Of Italy has but one senti-
ought to be and will be united to
Italy. There is no dissension as to
this demand. The dictators at Paris
had better take notice that Italy
Ingratitude
Throughout the last two months
the Italian press spoke with increas-
ing bitterness of the ingratitude of
the Allies. Even the "Corriere del
la Sera," which formerly had sup
ported, to an extent, Jugo-Slav as
pirations, came out unequivocally
for the demands of the Italian peo-
pie and denounced the haggling at
Paris, 1t wrote; "To explain the
persistence in objeeting to the solu~
tien of the Fiume problem in favor
of Italy 1t ia necessary to eonsder
not only the political faetors. but
alao the powerful mercantile inter-
eats. Among these interests which
are blocking Fumes restoration to
Italy, the "Corriere," and with 1t a
large number Of Italian papers. be.
leves are the Cunard line which Is
jealous of its monopoly and huge in
vestments in the port of Fiume, and
certain American groups which are
eager to seize the Jugo-Slav market.
A note of bitter sarcasm is struck
by the "Tribuna," of Rome. At
tacking the Paris negotiators, this
paper eXclaims:
"Ah, the Crusaders, the deliverers
of the oppressed peoples!
"Well, we shall tell the truth: the
Germans were, after all, more sincere.
They had their philosophy, their poll
cies, their diplomacy, and they pro-
claimed their ideas without hypocrisy,
in a cruel manner, but in a frank
manner, too"
The tone Of an editorial in the
"Idea Nazionale," principal organ of
the Nationalists, is not dissimilar:
Down with the mask, Italian i'm
perialists You demand outlets for
your commerce and raw material for
your industries. You ask. for Fiume
and Dalmatiai
Melt your cannon, destroy your
guns that will be useless in the fut-
ure brotherhood. For your gray bat
tleships England will substitute in an
Adriatic that is to be divided between
Italians and Jugo-Slavs, her freighters
for the commerce with the Orient.
Freedom of the seas and freedom
Of custom houses for Anglo American
products!"
The ingratitude Of the Allies is
again scored by Francesca Coppola,
one of the foremost Italian pub
licists and leader of the National
ist party. Writing in the review,
"Politica,' he says:
when Italy refused to lend ears
to the offers of Germany and Austria
Hungary our present allies offered US
lands and seas everywhere. The news
papers of Paris and London exulted
France offered Italy the rule of the
Adriatic and the Orient; England sus-
tanned Italy's claim to be the mistress
OF the Adriatic and to renew there
and in the Near East, in Asia Minor,
the glories of Venice and Genoa.
"And in this choir of promises the
most fervent were Lloyd George, Bal
four, Grey, Viviani, Delcasse, Clemen-
ceau, etc.
"Now that Italy has kept her pledged
word her allies try to rob her of the
fruits of her victory"
american Viesps
Among the American newspapers
discussing the situation "The New
York Herald" believes that Presi-
dent Wilson'S stand against the
Italian claim to Fiume "runs counter
TO the sentiment of the American
people"
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