The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-27
PRODLET.1S OF THE
 PEACE COnlEEDEnCr By NAZARIENE KANNIBELIE
By N NAZARIENE DIAN KANNIBELLE

At last we have open diplomacy Paris, and will of it All this time they representing us for making noise outside in Mr. Lloyd Georges phrase. for "screaming through the keyhole-' For the present at may the British Whip per-snapper' into the tender hands of the North cffe Press. But now we can hear them at @ thelr quarrels. A few weeks ago they even adJoufhed their quarrels street, the scandal of their neighbors will find them on the street with more unseemly scandals
 yet find the change from all that n1ys- tery-mongering pleasant and on the whole a salu, tary one. Orlando left Paris, came back, and the air like the east wind in spring Iie neAt c is expected Great Britain over Constanti- vii about it when they return to the street.
 Cause the TrouLIe
 All the trouble comes out o1 a treaty colcIu'eu between Entent Powers anad Italy just before into the war By this treaty @ !ta!y was was given not only the Southern Tyrol and Trieste but also a great deal territory the eastern shores of the Adriatic. in which the ltailan populaoh iS in a very decided minority.
 Now when this treaty made all this territory those who made treaty with Italy thought there was in dividing the skin before they hao
 But they forgot thought the shores on the eastern Adriatic under enemy sovereignty they were inhabitated mainly. by Slavs, who hated the Austrians and anxious throw off their yoke Some, about three quarters of a nllloh oi 'h9ii'' were handed over to the Italians ,
 It was, perhaps, the greatest mistake that Al lied diplomacy made, for these Slavs as might De e pected of people who are first cousins to ,e % .i are an extremely patriotic people and much as they dslied Austrans they dsliked the Italians even more. ., ..uos or tho ferred fighting against Austr1a they were Ivi1ine fight wit Austria against Italy Tn all the fighting in Carso these Slavs who could not he trusted against Russians, the bulk of the hard work against the Italians ana the I! dcce i.i u S to inc Allied cause instead of dealing Austria a mortal blow. really acted ptck-rne-up' Tor II onab1ed her to use Ter Slavs whom she could not anon1ov anywhere with safety. So you can cas- buncoed the hard-pressed IAliles oI,+ of their cash under the provision Of the Tpfauous London Treaty she made them come across ,Yitb s25OOoO.OOO before entering the war on the ride of 1he Entente the Liberation or the Op- pressed nationalities-
 A Treaty
 The annexation O Slav countries was not only mistake but it was politically speaking crime It was in fine principles of protecting merchandise to be bought and sold in the diplo- matic market. ,
 Even worse, it scurvy trick to play on the Serbs.
 The treaty kept secret from the people Of this country and quite extraordinary efforts were made to keep it secret the Serbian govern rnent Of course they failed, and the Serbs, on the ton of all their misfortunes had the mortl!lcatlon of being like relations eaung at the kitchen table, while the great folk were pe1ng en- tertained the dining-room.
 their relatives southern Slavs and the Croats as the natural destiny of their and the reward Of their copstancy and their suffering.
 Things got so bad and the professlonal olplo- mats were so clearly helpless, that those Who Knew +ba facts and saw until this business was set fled we were really bolstering Austria appealed from the governments to the people. Ihey urged tbe comuon-sense argument that Austr1a as the weak member of the Coalition ought to be attacked