The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-10
DANGERS SEEN|N
COMPROMISE PLAN
AWARDING FIUME
Continued From First PaEe.ls

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promise was like amputating a man's
n instead of his arm, and the Jugo-
Slavs are certain to view the thing in
TO balance the apparent concessions
Itaiy Is TO receive a mandate for All
on Albania, territory Of some 5000 or
s,Vo9 square miles, inhabited by 700. 900
y oVO,O0O people, who are themselves
divided by tribes, by religion, by tradl-
Lmnh pus united in common hatred OF
ai invaders, This country is without
railroads. without roads, the widest
part or Europe, which has never been
conquered or submitted to orderly gov
eminent since the days Of the Romans.
Italy Enters Balkans.
BY the bestowal of a mandatory for
ms region upon Italy, Italy enters the
balkans. She finds herself faced with
me Jugo-Slavs on the north, h%enceforth
forever her enemies because of the Dali
nation and Fiume questions. while to
me southwark she Is already embroiled
with the Greeks, who claim that part
oL AiDania known as Northern Epirus,
Wnlch Is Greek in history and was as
signed TO Greece once during the pres
eht war and taken from the Greeks
through italian influence first after the
war. N
BY this alleged settlement Italy Is
now TO enter into the midst of the
baiKan turmoil as an enemy Of SlaV
n Greek. Both these people will re-
gard her precisely as the Italians re-
gard Austria as long as the Hapsburg
monarchy held Trentino and Trieste
and Paris has already been informed
that J~ugo-Slavia and Greece have made
a secret alliance which can nave no
other purpose than common action
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But the difficulties do not end here
Rumania and Jugo-Slavia are. also dis
putting certain territories in Banat. AS
a natural consequence Rumania is maxi
Ing common cause with Italy against
the Slavs, and thus there is being re-
vlVed In the interests of great power
the old Balkan condition of intrigue
and hatred. 1t VIII be Italy's policy
necessarily as long as she holds the
territories which the Slavs rightfully
claim to keep J~ugo-Slavia weak, both
by continued efforts to propagate diff \
Ierences between the Slovenians, Croats
ana Serbs and through understandings
alike with Rumanians and Bulgarians. |
Moreover, when Russia RECEIVERS her
strength, If she does, nothing is more
certain than that she will once more
resume her historic championship of the
Slavs, and we shall have Eu-
rope once more dragged into Balkan
affairs and Balkan states set against
each other, and the circumstances out
which the recent world wal grew
repeated.
This, after all, is the type of the kind
thing the Paris conference has done.
Saar valley, Danzig, Tescher and
rune are all arrangements of the same
sort, made to avoid immediate ~crisisy
but. In the very nature Of things post.
poning, not abolishing, conflict.
Fear Future Trouble.
1t is a simple thing to say that the
league OF nations will henceforth be
able to preserve peace in the Balkans,
The congress Of Berlin and made prac-
the same kind Of m~akeshifts as
now been manufactured. No one
who knows the southern Slavs believes
'or a moment that they will perma-
nently accept the situation which gives
brothers to Italy. No one believes that
Italy. VIII at any time resign territories
which h now acquires at the expense
the J~ugo-Slavs and Greeks. 1t would
been a far better thing to give
to Italy and Tara and Sebenico
Q 8 -SlaVia, but the greatest evil in
his settlement is the Albanian situa-
We v now recognized the Italian
claims In Dalmatia, which bring Italy
INTO conflict, with the J~ugo-SiaNs, and
n Albania, where there is conflict 10th
With Slavs and Greeks; in Asia Minor,
where Italy has not even a shadow of
warrant and now becomes the foe OF
Turks and the Greeks and the rival
" Great Britain and France. and we
re increasing Italian holdings in North
I'm Africa, where Italian experience has
but little less disastrous than In
Abyssiania, and finally we are extend
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Evils Are Many.
Like all other questions which have
ONE before the Paris conference. the
'fume problem carried in its train An
nfinite number of evil consequences,
AZ. Wilson'S declaration that the Ital-
ans should not have Fiume was a
ust declaration, but to maintain his
about Fiume he has been COM
'elled to consent to one compromise /
ifter another, which, in the aggregate,
ave created a far worse situation than
you'd have resulted had Fiume gone
3 Italy outright. Wherever one of the
! points has been involved, in the
iscussion to maintain even q semblance
( fidelity to that principle, Mr.. Wilson Z
as been forced to aeeede to the viola .
Of that same principle elsewhere. l
This Italian question Is the tyne of
Il the intricate disputes of the Paris :,
The fashion In which Il !.
as been regulated is The final illus y
ration Of the working of this confer I
nee. In order to have an outlet on 7
sea for the Jugo-Slavs, Mr.. Wilson :
as been obliged to consent to Italian
n%neSation Of other Jugo-Slav towns
nd sterritories, to the Italian, ,occupa-
OF Albania, and to the italian oc-
lpation, of Asia, Minor.
The result is clear, Every compro-
llse, from Shantung to the Saar, has
Id the foundation for future European
and has famed the fires of 4
,cial ~animosities until they are burn
10 at white heat once more. Nor is
without sinister suggestion that the
res are burning most fiercely pre-