Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-08

derstanding with the AustriAns, CHIEF
enemies Of italy. which. was %
forth to be an ally Of the JuEo-SiSva
or greater Serbia call IL a you like.
wax q very act TO say me , leis
Allies Of their rightful booty OF q
and secondly to get.a powerful tieee
OF her own very cheaply. A most
decettful way Of acting. and most Hus-
ptcious, seeing the JuRo-Slavs Kept ,up
and know vows they do n0t still
keep up-A sort OF understanding
and teachers in crooked diplomacy.
Having gained SO early an exper-
fence of what the JuEo-Slavs are able
OF, is it q wonder IL the Italians Keep
their eye open and show q bit OF mis-
trust Of such partners OF allies? Any
one with some common sense would
do this. That does not. however, ex-
to an understanding with that new
ally. but surely she is right in trying
to exclude her own children from
such guardianship. Cannot that. be
done, a great wrong IL committed to
Italy who here is acting not out OF
love Of greed and power. but chiefly
because she feels her own race NEEDS
that to let them under foreign yoke
may bear the germ of future struggle.
convinced, as she is, that they will DO
Likewise. I think the idea that
these newspaper men have Of all
Moderate Italians". whom they boast
of sharing their own opinion. will be
Of moderation Of Itaiy's claims Of Dali
malta as De VIII de Marco. Girotti.
Silva, and that scholar. Prof. Sal
vemini. have one and all left the stan
of New Europe" published in Lon
don as a result Of that periodical
treatment of the Italian-Jugo-Slav
question. I mean. q great silence on
the ~pretentiohs and behavior Of the
Jugo-Slavs-by no means limited to
Italian conquest alone-while Italy 10
treated as q rapacious aggressor.
"'Half truths are often as bad as
lies. How ehalk now this vexatious
question Of Dalmatia be settled? It
does hold more Creates and Slavs
than Italians. but those latter reach.
however, nearly half a million. But
Slavs and Creates. though there al
Dalmatia, have chiefly grown in num-
Der by means of forced or favored
immigration fostered by Austria to
combat their italian subjects these
last fifty
els New York then to be italian
because more or six hundred thou
sand Italians live there? Or is York.
shire (England) to be Danish because
some thousand years back there was
Dalmatia is now to be considered all
Jugo-Slav when it first. for centuries,
was Roman and then belonged to the
"Serenissima,' the Venitian republic
for other centuries. until it came un-
der Austrian dominion as late as
1897 by the shameless treaty Of Cam
poformio? And such a ace Of pure
stock as those Dalmatians do not
change in one hundred years.: nor are
of Istrial and Dalmatia that Italy
proper does not yet hold. And II Al
sace-L6rraine, which only for some
thing like two hundred years be.
longed to France, Is considered hel
rightful part, should not Dalmatis
still more then be truly considered
Italian? Italian supremacy on Dial
malta. I consider il an urgent neces
stty, far more important than British
supremacy on the Transvaal or Amer
tican supremacy on Hawaii or Philip
ipine Islands.
"'Those italians. who have bee,
and are for compromises: have neve
questioned rights. nor ace Of Dial
imatia: all that can simply not be ques
toned. They have been for q com
lpromise because it vas expedient, AM
tlet us say that If we had. for instance
the U. 8. or England on the othe
side of the Adriatic sea. I think Their
would have been no cry out at al
. But every day growing knowledge o
the -JugoSSlav character at its feroc
ious manifestations, anyone who love
; his fellow-countrymen must feel a
|least Uneasy. Yes. feel he has to d
} all to AVOID they come under sue
. ia rule. 1t is not for nothing on
( comes Of al old civilized race. tn
lCroates ARE inferior, in spite Of wins
else might be said. and II our aim
l Ito avoid troubles for the future,
, would be far better to let all Italian
come under Italy's rule.
: "t'Vvhat is, best? To have eigh
hundred thousand Jugo-savs und<
{ an enlightened. free Italian govern
I ment, or four hundred thousand TIA
II r's.r y :,