Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-22
Respectfully yours,
"REV. C. GALASSI."

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The cartoon to which Father Galassi refers was published in the
EVENING NEWS on Monday. This cartoon impersonated the peace
conference at Paris in the form Of a woman doing washing and having
a grea. deal of work piled up ahead for her. The work thus piled up
represented the problems that must be settled by the peace confer
cnce. Among the rest was one entitled ''Italian claims The EVEN
ING NEWS sees no ofense to Italy in this Is it is universally acknowl-
edged that one of the greatest problems confronting the peace con-
ference is the adjustment of the conflicting claims between Italy and
the Balkan states involving the Dalmatian coast.
President Wilson, during his recent visit to Italy, in addressing
the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, said:
''But we cannot stand in the shadow of this war without
knowing there are things which are in some senses more
difficult than those we have undertaken, because, while it is
easy to speak of right and justice, it is sometimes difficult to
work them out in practice, and there will be required a purity
of motives and dEnterestedness of object which the world
has never witnessed before in the councils of nations"
That President Wilson was here referring to the great problem
of Strengthening out the Balkan situation a IS it involves the Italian
claims is evident from the comment on the speech made, not only by
the newspapers of Rome, but also by the statements made by the lead
es of the Jugoslays and the Serbians.
If the EVENING NEWS, by placing this problem of the Italian
claim to the Dalmatan coast along with the big problems that the
peace conference must solve, has offended Italy them President
Wilson and all the great statesmen now gathered together in Paris
else have offended Italy. We feel, however, that there is no ofense in
honestly trying to straighten out a difficulty where two friends are in
OF President Wilson's fourteen points, the ninth is as follows:
"A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be ef-
fected along clearly recognized lines of nationality"
When this is applied to the Delmatian coast, a serious problem is
raised and one which the EVENING NEWS does not pretend to be
ables to solve. In fact, it is going to take the greatest brains of all
This is entirely different from the claim of France to AlsaceLorraine
whereas Italys problem was something that has developed IS a result
of the war. The eighth of President Wilson, fourteen points, to which
we have already referred, has to do with Alsace Lorraine and it leaves
no question regarding the disposition of those provinces. The eighth
point is as follows:
"An French territory should be freed and the involved
portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia
in 1871 in the matter of AlsaceLoTraine, which has unsettled
the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted
in order that peace may once more be made secure in the in
terest of all"
If We are to accept President Wilson's fourteen points, we find
at once that there is no question raised at all IS to the return of
Alsaee Lorraine to France, whereas the matter of readjustment of
Italian frontier is left TO be thrashed out at the council table.
The eleventh of President Wilson's fourteen points says, among
other things, that Serbia should be accorded free and secure access
oethe sea-" Naturally, the most logical access to the sea for Serbia
would be through her sister Slav states on the Adriatic, but here again
the clash comes with the Italian claims.
We are sure that every effort will be made to give Italy absolute
justice and, IN fact, a point will doubtless be stretched in her favor
due TO the work she has accomplished in bringing about the victory.
As far as the EVENING NEWS is concerned, we feel that Italy is
entitled to every consideration AT the same time, if we are to have
a lasting peace such as 1T S proposed to bring about at the peace con-
ference now on justice must be done all peoples including the Serbians
and Jugoslays as well as the Italiana