The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-24
ITALIANS WITHDRAW.
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tSItu tilt IuSgtc, WIFI tiO hliOhlcNGt VI
that private understanding.
s'The Austro- Hungarian empire, then
the enemy of Europe, and at whose ex-
pense the pact of London was to be kept
in the event of victory, has gone to piec-
es and no longer exists. Not only that, |
but the several parts of that empire, it |
Is agreed now by Italy and all her asso-
ciates, are to be erected into independ-
ent states and associated in league OF
nations, not with those who were recent
iy our enemies, but with Italy herself and
the powers that stood with Italy in the
great war for liberty.
I'VE are to establish their liberty as
well as our own. They are to be among
the smaller states whose interests are
henceforth to be safeguarded as scrupu-
lousy as the interests of the most power
full states.
THE war was ended, moreover, by
proposing to Germany an armistice and
peace which should be founded on certain
clearly defined principles which set up a
new order of right and justice.
upon those principles the peace with
Germany has been conceived, not only,
but formulated Upon those principles
it will be executed
1--WE cannot ask the great body of pow
ers to propose and effect peace with Aus
tria and establish a new basis of indie
pendence and right in the states which
originally constituted the Hunga-
rian empire and in the states of the Bal
kan group on principles of another kind.
We must apply the same principles to
the settlement OF Europe in those quar-
tiers that we have applied in the peace
with Germany.
| 1T was upon the explicit avowal OF
these principles that the initiative for
peace was taken. 1t is upon them that
| the whole structure of peace must rest.
IF those principles are to be adhered
to, Fiume must serve as the outlet OF
the commerce, not of Italy, but of the
land to the north and northeast of that
port Hungary, Bohemia, Rumania and
the states of the new Jugo-Slav group.
ITO assign Eume to Italy would be tc
create the feeling that we have dehber
ately put the port upon which all these
countries chiefly depend for their acces:
to the Mediterranean in the hands Of
power of which it did not form an int
grail part and whose sovereignty, if SCI
up there, must inevitably seem foreign
not domestic, or identified with the com
snercial and industrial life of the region
which the port must serve.
1T is for that reason, no doubt, tina
fiume was not included in the pact o
, London, but there definitely assigned t
the Croatians.
And the reason why the line OF tn
pact of London swept about many Q
the islands OF the eastern coast OF tn
Adriatic and around the portion of tn
Dalmatian coast which lies most open I
, that sea was not only that here and Their
/. on those islands, and here and there o
that coast, there are bodies of people c
/, Italian blood and connection, but alst
i and no doubt chiefly, because it was fe
!. that it was necessary for Italy to haV
:, foothold amid the channels of the cas-
i ern Adriatic in order that she might max
4 her own coasts safe against the naval al
erosion of Austria Hungary.
!. "But Austria Hungary no longer exist
). It is proposed that the Notifications whlc
/, the Austrian government constructe
i there shall be razed and permanently de
q troyed
:. 1T is part also of the new plan of 4
!, ropean order which centers IN the leag'
\ of nations that the new states ereett
:. there shall accept limitation of arm
ID nents. which puts aggression out OF q
" question. There can be no fear OF Il
= unfair treatment of groups of Italian pc
70 pie there because adequate guarantee
will be given, under international san
10 ton, OF the equal and equitable treatme
in of all racial or national minorities.
IA In brief, every question assosiat
H. with this settlement wears a new aspe
It. "a new aspect given it by the very v
% tory for right for which Italy has ma
the supreme sacrifice of blood and tire;
40 IRE italy. along with the four 9th
he great powers, has become one of the CHI
a trustees of the new order which she
or played SO honorable a part IN estabh'
he ing.
as. and on the north and northeast /
natural frontiers are completely restor'
along the whole sweep OF the Alps ir'
northwest to southeast to the very e
of the Istrian Peninsula, including
Do the great watershed within which IRE
and Pola lie, and all the fair regi'
whose face nature has turned toward
III. great peninsula upon which the hlsto
m. life of the Latin people has been worl
az out through centuries of famous story
,ut er since Rome was hrst set upon hef
ne. en- hills.
- Her ancient unity is restored. /
mo lines are extended to the great w
,er which are her natural defense. 1t is w
of in her choice to be surrounded by frier
tor to exhibit to the newls-liberated peol
~. across the Adriatic that noblest qua
nr. of greatness, magnanimity, friendly
nd. crosby, the preference of justice over
or. terest
NOT "The nations associated with her,
= a. nations that know nothing of the /
of London or Of any other special UNI
standing that lies at the beginning OF
great struggle, and who have made t
supreme sacrifice also in the interest,
of national advantage or defense, but
ged tho settled peace OF the world, are un
with her older associates IN urging