Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-23
DR.. PACE DECLARES PACTS
HOLD WORLD FROM CHAOS
says Failure to Ratify Treaty and
Covenant Would Return Inn
perialism.
HAS PRAISE FOR ITALIANS
rays High Tribute to President Will
son in First Address Since Return
ing From Abroad, Made Before
Virginia War History Commission.
AS PRAISE FOR ITALIANS

Failure to ratify the peace treaty,
with the accompanying covenant OF
the league of nations, would serve
eventually to throw the world into
chaos and back into the arms of i'm
peria!ism stronger than ever. Thomas
Nelson Page declared last night during
the course of an address in the hall
of the House OF Delegates, before the
Virginia War History Commission.
The American ambassador to Italy
turther expressed the conviction that
its opponents, II they succeed in their
efforts to defeat certain important
assumed responsibility greater than
any body OF men, similarly situated,
nave ever assumed in the history Of
Wilson Loudly Applnuded. =
"f~hope,' he concluded, that there
is enough of patriotism in the upper
mouse mouse or or Congress to insure the ratifi-
so much to mankind-upon which all
Its ;rI hopes Of future security hang
he characterized as Virginian who
had done more, to bring the war to a
Ss ssforv eonens9n and q
any other single man in the world
brought the house to its feet in
lations between the President and the
mbassador to Italy had hastened TIE
his post at Rome went hurriedly in,o
the discard as he rendered before his
ReSple h In ms rf pu6G ate hs
highest compliment he could have
framed.
Praise for Italians.
For the Italian people. with whom
he has been intimately associated as
the representative of the United States
for the last six years. DR.. Page spok 9
with low, and an admiration which.
one has been in close touch with them
and has, come TO know the hardships
WhGh they 6aye ENDURED Ind for of dGe
selves and the world.
lie pleaded for closer union OF
SAYING :ssn ihat 'rt no people p in ali Europe so
looked to the United states for SYM
pathy in. the ideals and aspirations
She feels herself isolated" he. de-
clared, misunderstood. standing alone
What she wants is recognition-noth-
ing of any material sort-but recog-
milton OF what this great, liberty-lov-
ing democracy has accomplished. what
gave their lives for. 1t is not Fiume
any OF the other places. to which
she laid claim. that hurts. but the
While Dr. Page did not mention
Fiume in this connection. he said that
what Italy wanted she would never
relax until she got.
Quiet on Fiumc Question.
"It is not Rome that is eternal" he
declared. but Itaiy-torn ant dis
severed many times in her history,
but ever gathering. herself together
country do not like America especi-
ally. but the people do. In fact
thought at times that | was dreaming,
so much alike our own Southern pco-
pie are the Italians The gray uni
forms they wore reminded me OF my
own Virginia during the years of our
Civil War"
In commenting upon the claims for
certain places that Italy pressed be-
fore the peace conference. DR.. Page
said that she feels they are essential
TO protect her from the menace of
reconstructed Austria or the Jugo-
Slavs which will lurk behind the
islands off the Dalmatian coast. He
did not say what he personally thought
of the justice of the claims or the
expediency of granting them.
He said that feelings between France
and Italy are strained and delicate,
due to the feeling in Italy that France
las attempted to wall her in.
The ambassador was introduced by
DR.. Douglas Freeman.