The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-01
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Backbone Anti.American Prop
uganda Broken in Brazil.
Statements of DIR. PessOa in This
Country Effect Change.
ITALIANS ASSAIL PRESIDENT
Colony in Brazil Still Bitter
Over Fiume.
Say Wilson Drunk on Triumph
Not Antagonist Toward U. S.

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, July l.
The backbone of the anti-American
propaganda in Brazil has been broken
/ by the statements of President-elect
/ Pessoa in the United States officially
disappearing the propaganda and de-
! claring it does not represent the feel
/ ing of Brazil.
| The Pessoa statements have brought
! the Brazilian press and public to
realization of the meaning and dan
! gers of the propaganda which con-
| tinued for four months. The reaction
/ has already set in. For the first time
| in four months the formal Do Com
| ercio today carried no paid anti
I American advertisements and the pa
] per editorially condemned the cam
paign. other newspapers here are
following a similar course.
While the campaign was primarily
due to the jealousies arising from the
present trade competition, political
reasons were partly responsible. The
Italian colony in Rio De Janeiro was
! Especially bitter because of President
Wilson's recent statement regarding
Fiume. The attitude of Italian lead
ers is changing. however.
Don't Blame L. S.. But Wilson.
''Fanfulla" CT Sac Paulo, the most
widely circulated and influential Ital-
day prepared a statement for the
United Press as follows:
italians are fully aware of the
sympathy extended by the American
people during the war and they never
intended to charge against the Ameri-
can people the responsibility for re-
cent opposition to Italian claims at the
peace conference. They do blame
President Wilson, however. Altho
President Wilson is the legitimate rep
resentative of the Am erican people. we
distinguish between the man and the
people.
The situation regarding Italy is a
delicate one and American statesmen
and the American press should not
add fuel to the fire. In Wilson and
the American people the Italians saw
the apostles of right and justice. Then
Italians saw that President Wilson did
not dare to contest England's dominion
of the seas and her possession of Glib
ralter and TIE Suez; that he was deaf
10 the appeals of Egypt; that he re-
nounced his earlier principles regard
ing retention of the German colonies;
annex the Saar valley. allowed the
rape of Danzig and admitted the
usurpation of Kiao Chau by Japan.
Intoxicated by Triumph.
Then we saw that he denied the !
population of Fiume the right to de- !
eide its destiny. We judged President |
Wilson as a man intoxicated by the |
greatest triumph ever recorded in his
tory, who had lost his sense of JUS |
tiCe. But we do not believe the good !
relations between Italy and the |
United States can be compromised by
this misunderstanding. We have, we
believe. many proofs that the Ameri-
can public disapproves many of Will |
sons acts. The American press should |
not indulge in a campaign of defama- |
ton. While We believe many, many |
American newspapers have been vic |
Tins of misinformation regarding the |
subject of Italy, proof of American
impartiality is found in the readiness |
of the press to transmit our views to |
the American public"