The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-25
LITERAL ENFORCEMENT WARTIME
 PROHIBITION PLAN OF GOVERNMENT
Premier Orlando's Statement
 Ln Reply to President Wilson

plv say that no one will receive with out reserve the affirmation that the collapse of the Austro- Hungarian em- pire should imply the reduction of Ital- ian, aspirations
 Citing the Presidents argument that the concessions granted bring Italy to it's natural defenses, the Alps, Signor Orlando says:
 "This recognition is of great inn portance provided the eastern flank of this wall does not remain open ana that the right of Italy should be in- terpreted to include the line Of Mont Nevoso, which separates the waters running toward the Black sea and the Mediterranean"
 He recalls that the Latins from the earliest dawn of Italian history deslg- mated this mountain the Italian limit"
 DANGEROUS BREACH "Wlthout this protection" says the premier there would be a dangerous breach in this admirable barrier of the Alps rupturing the unquestionable DO litical economic and historical unity l of the Istrian peninsula. content | furthermore that he who is. entitled 10 | the honor of proclaiming to the word ! the right of the free determination ot neonles should recognize this right for 1 Fiume. an ancient Italian city which proclaimed its Italian nature before the Italian ships arrv ed--an admiral. C ! exarrple of national conscience per | petuated throughout centuries. ITO deny this right only because O. 1 the small number concerned wouio | mean the admission that the criterion 1 of justice toward peoples varies ac- cording to their territorial extent i Premier Orlando then points out that Antwerp. Genoa and Rotterdam are 1 international ports. serving as an out 1 let to divers peoples and territoric' l without having to pay for the privile5. ! bv sacrificing national conscience, ano continuing: cessive the Italian aspirations towaft inc Dalmatian coast. 1taly's boulevard l throughout centurines which Roman genius and Venetian activity made no ble and grand and whose Italian cnar' ! acter. defylng for centuries impiacd ble prosecutions, still shares the sam thrill of patriotism with the italiai
 people"
 The principle proclaimed with refer ence 10 Poland that denationalization
 based on violence does not creat
 rights. the premier contends, should b applied to Damatia.
 Passing to the argument of 'col statistical statements the premier si firms that among the national recon StTuct1OnS occupying thc pSdNS ec"ASf ience none of the reconstructed nation
 will count within their frontiers rel i atiyely slighter number of persons 0 talien race than would be attributed { T Italy. and asks why only Italian :. should be suspected of imperialism
 cupidity. ' The history of the negotiations. I, declares, will show that the Italian del :. legation acted not only with frmnes' but with grand spirit of concilia : tion. He concludes his statement as fo. Ffollows:
 .The presidential message ends wit a warm decla ration of America $ friendship for Italy. reply in tr , name of the Italian people. and proud ly claim the right and honor to do thi as one, who in the most tragic hou , of this war. proclaimed the cry of re sisfance at all costs. This cry wa , heard and replied to with courage an , labnegation. of which there are fe' : more striking examples in the world l history
 "Italy, thanks to the most hero : sacrifices and purest blood of her chi : dren. was able to ascend from th : abyss of misfortunes to the radiai : crest of most glorious victory In tf
 name, therefore. of Italy. l expre' : with all my power the sentiment of a : ihiration and profound sympathy whi. . the Italian people professes toward u : American people.