Evening journal., 1919-05-24

surrendered only under the acceptance,
OF them and they should be now sp-
Piled against Italy in spite OF the fact
that they were excluded from the con-
dltiOns OF Austria's surrender
The Security OF Italy and the League
OF Nations.
! Mr.. Wilson afllrms that the houndar-
les he intends to assign 10 Italy Will
be sufficient to protect Italy against
future aggrcsslOns. Nobody knew a
Mr.. Wilson's competence in military
matters, but everybody knows that
not q single American general has gone
TO Italy TO study at FIRST hand her
dlfllcult military problem: not a single
American statesman, not even the om-
nipotent Mr.. House. who has been So
long in Europe, has gone on the spot
to study The national and racial prob
/ lem Of the Adriatc. General Diaz and
Admiral Thaon III Revel should have
been entitled, little more than Mr..
Wilson. 10 say something about the
military defense OF Italy. Has Foch
| had too much TO say about the French
frontier OF the Rhine?
However what Is quite typical In
all this question Is that Mr.. Wilson
afllrms that Italy will be quite safe
because Of the League or Nations and
therefore Will not need any natural
defense FOR her future secuciiy.
Let US be candid: The League OF
Nations Is a thing OF which everybody
speaks with great respect but in which
nobody belieyes-not England, who
asked for sea power and refused TO
a. nf hns
nor France who asked for at least the
naturalization OF the left bank OF the
Rhine and now is asking FOR a military
alliance with America and England
not even America who wanted to be
safeguarded by tho Monroe Doctrine
and is thinking seriously Of increasing
her military strength on land aid on
sea. II is hard TO understand Why
Italy alone should be obliged to be-
| lleve in 10 and rely upon i'll lt is
quite natural that, independent OF any
other reasons, Italy should prefer 10
| have the territory she thinks ncces-
sary for her security and TO look at
things from the identical point OF view
as France, England and America; u IS
well 10 have laws, judges and police
men, but very much better tn have
our homes closed: 10 is good TO have
Leqgue Of Nations. but very much
better TO have the doors Of our coun-
try closed
Are JugO-Slavs Enemies:
The whole of Mr.. Wilson's state
ment Is founded on a wrong belief. lie
saws that the Jugo-Slavs are not enc
mics. But this judgment should be
left TO Italy; they are not America 5
enemies now, because Mr. wilson
recognized them two months ago. but
they have been and are still ltaly's
enemies, and the defense against them
interests Italy alone.
Some time ago Mr.. Wilson was asked
by Premier Orlando TO settle the Adri-
attic question, and he answered that
he had not the time TO study IT, How
it has been possible for him 10 recog-
nize the Jub0-Slays not knowing the
question Is a mystery that not even Mr..
Wilson can solve. 10 is a mystery of
the same kind as this other one How
was it possible for Mr.. Wilson to pub
lish so decisive a statement over the
most complicated question at the Peace
Table, II he had not studied it up to
a few days before?
But Italy knows what ferocious enc
mics Croatlans and Jugo-Slavs, the
most faithful servants OF the Haps-
burgs. have been to her-more ancient.
more continually ferOclous, without
possible comparison, than the Germans
have been TO France. And Mr. Wilson,
who is right in giving France every
possible defense against Germany,
dares 10 ask the Italians TO consider
Jugo-Slavs and .Croatians as friends. Is
Mr.. Wilson willing to forget The de-
plorable demonstrations OF JugO-Slav
hate against the Italians, which were
the immediate consequence Of his hur-
ried recognition of Jugo-Slavia, a
recognition still denied by France and
England?
In order to put Italy in an unlavor-
able light and Jugo-Slavia in good
light there is a tendency 10 conf0und
Serbians with Croatians, and the Jugo-
Slavs are trying TO represent the argu-
ments Italy brings against Jugo-Slavs
as directed toward Serbians. This is
a poor artiflce. Italy knows what
Serbia has suffered, because Italy her
self has suffered as much. But Italy
does not intend 90 be the victim Of
trick
Croatans and Jugo-Slavs fought TO
the last against Italy and the Allies;
when Austria saw that the final blow
was coming she turned everything
over 10 the Jugo-Slavs. trying in this
way to deceive Italy and the Allies. The
Croatians and Jugo-Slavs. seeing that
the trick was unsuccessful. gave them
selves to Serbia in order to be shield
cd by her and to share her merits and
camoulage their crimes. or course
Serbia. Notwithstanding the fact that
she has got three or four times as
much territory as she had before the
war. taking with her Jugo-Slav cOun-
tries to have through them more adj
vantages, II possible. But Serbians are
Serbians and still allies. Italy has for
them the same feeling OF friendship
now as in 1916 when she saved them.
.ugo-Slavs and the Croatlans are JugO-
Slavs and Croatians; that is to say.
they are enemies, and II they succeed