Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1920-03-05
UNITED STATES
STANDS FIRM
Text of Correspondence Between
Wilson and PremierS
Made Public.
SPLIT RESTS WITH ALLIES
Now Up to Great Britain, France and
Italy to Decide Whether to Yield
or Permit Withdrawal of
Peace Treaty.

Washington, Feb. 2S.-"The govern
ment of the United States stands pat"
This was the official construction
placed on the correspondence between
the United States government and the
governments of Great Britain and
France with relation to the Adriatic
settlements.
1t is up to Great Britain, France
and Italy to decide whether TO yield
to President Wilson in the Adriatic
controversy or to stand pat and there
by cause him to consider withdrawal
from the senate of the peace treaty
with its League of Nations covenant.
The president demands the allies
return to the Adriatic plan OF Deem
her to which he and the British ana
Italian premiers subscribed.
The full correspondence was made
public by the state department. IL
consists of the joint memorandum
signed on December 8 by Premier
Clemenceau of France, Sir Eyre
Grove for England and Underseere-
tary of State Frank L. Polk for the
United States; the British and French
revised proposals of January Il the
text of the cable sent on January -
by the secretary of state asking the
point of view of the British and
French governments in undertaking to
dispose of the Adriatic and Russian
questions before ascertaining the
nY1f
the statements Of the French and
British prime ministers of January
3d. President Wilson's protest note or
February 10, in which he threatened
to withdraw the German treaty from
the senate if the British-French atti-
tude was persisted in; the reply OF
the French and British prime minis
tiers of February IL and President
Wilson'S note of February "a, which
brings the correspondence up to date.
The whole correspondence makes
about 10000 words.
The joint memorandum of December
8 subscribed to by France, Great
Britain and the United States, and
which it was supposed had settled the
Adriatic question, provided in sub
stance the following
Istria was to have frontier which,
while widely overstepping" the recog-
nized clinical line between Italy and
Jugo- Slavia. would have given to
Italy more than 100000 .Jugo-Slavs
and further extended eastward to give
Italy territory in the region of Altoona.
also including Jugo Slavs, as against
10000 italians to be placed under the
League of Nations.
There was to be a free state Of FL
ume under control and for future de-
termination by the league with full
autonomy for the city of Fiume.
The city of cara was to have COM
3lete sovereignty under the league and
complete control of its own affairs.
The islands of the Pelagosa group,
LISA and the small islands west of it,
Lussin and Unie, were to pass to Italy
on demilitarized basis, with local au-
tonomy for the Slavs in LISA.
Italy was to have a mandate over
the independent state Of Albania I'M
der the league. Albania's frontiers
north and east were to be those fixed
by the London conference of 1913, bus
the south was left for negotiation.
Greece was to have certain territory,
the lines of some of which were to
be left for negotiation. The city of
Valona and such hinterland strictly
necessary to defense and economic de-
velopment were granted to Itals in
full sovereignty.
In the note of President Wilson to
the allied premiers, discussing the
Adriatic question, he said:
eff agreement on what is just and
reasonable is not to determine inter-
national issues; If the country pos
sessing the most endurance in pressing
its demands rather than the country
armed with just cause is to gain the
support of the powers; If fOrcible
seizure of coveted areas is TO be per-
mitted and condoned and is to receive
ultimate justification by creating a
situation so difficult that decision
favorable to the aggressor is deemed
a practical necessity; if deliberately
melted ambition is, under the name Of
rational sentiment, to be rewarde6 at
the expense Of the small and weak !;
il. in word, the old order of things
which brought so many evils on the
world is still to prevail. then the time
is not yet come when this government
can entertain concert of powers. the
very existence of which must depend
upon new spirit and new order"