The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-04-25
ESSENTIAL PROBLEM Can
AND MUST Be SOLVED
SAYS ORLANDO OF CRISIS
IN PEACE CONFERENCE.
Wilson Unjustified in Applica.
tion Of His Abstract Prin-
ciples to Italy.

Paris. April 25.--In a statement
given out yesterday by Premier Or
lando In reply to President Wilson's
appeal on the Adriatic question.
stress was laid by the Italian prime
minister upon the question of the
propriety Of any attempt from the
outside to set UP opposition between
the italian people and their govern
ment. After arguing that such an
attempt would virtually mean the ig-
noring and denying Of the high de-
gree of civilization which the Italian
government mad attained under dem
ocratic government, the premier
added:
ITO oppose, so to speak. the Iatl-
ian government and people would be
to admit that this great, free nation
should submit to the yoke of will
other than its own, and shall be
forced to protest vigorously against
such suppositions. unjustly offensive
to my country"
In a subsequent part of his state
mcnt. Premier Orlando, in referring
to the conferences held in an effort
to solve the territorial problems af-
fecting Italy, during which. the pre-
mier said. President Wilson had had
the kindness to recognize that truth
rand justice are. the monopoly OF NO
one person and That all men are sub
ject to error, Premier Orlando con-
tinued:
Error All the Eaiser.
And / add that the error lis all the
easier as the problens 70 which the
principles apply are the more COM
blex. Humanity is such an immense
thing, the problems raised by the life
or the people are so infinitely COM
pick that nobody can believe he has
found in determined number of
proposals as simple and sure a way
to solve them as IL it were a ques-
tion of determining the dimensions,
the volume and the weight of bodies
with various units of measure.
while remarking that NOR than
once the conference nearly failed
completely when 1t was a question of
applying these principles, l do not
know but that i am showing disre-
spect toward this high assembly. On
the contrary. these changes have been
and still are the consequences of hu-
man judgment. l mean to say only
that experience has proved the diff =
culties in the application of these
principles of an abstract nature to
concrete cases. Thus, With all def
erence but firmly. | consider as un-
justified the application made by
President Wilson in his message of
his principles to the Italian claims"
Both Ancient and Now Italy.
Declaring that one could not ac-
cept without reservations the state
ment that the downfall of the Aus
tro- Hungarian empire implied a re-
duction of Italian aspiration, the pre-
mier added:
"It is even permissible to believe
even the contrary, that, at the very
moment when all the varied peoples
who constituted that empire sought
to organize according to their ethnic
and national affinities, the essential
problem caused by the Italian claims
can and must be completely solved.
Now this problem is that of the
Adriatic, in which are summed up all
the rights of both ancient and the
new Italy. all her sufferings through
out the centuries and all the benefits
she is destined to bring to the great
international community"