The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1920-01-15
Suggested Key to F1unae Problem
From the London Times.

from Se lOnCCn Illness
There are three possible motives for thu Italian claims to Fiume, viz: az
sentiment; Rl tmreciaNsic greed; (O fear that Ftune might hecome a dam
gerous rival to Trieste Let US consider each of he boy motives separately.
a. The motive Of sentiment has not a leg to stan N. Before III war
FUN was eve onsidered ezra irrdena In Italy there were societies for
the liberation of Trento n Trieste; Dalnatia was but seldom mentioned. and
Fiume neve appeared in the program of thu Italian imperiafsts The majority
prove: ossoniak. Druskovitch, Rubmich. Hodnig. Samuel Grossnch etc. Fifty
years ago there were hardly 1000 Italians in Fiume. Those who are really
Italians are5o only immigrant OF recent years.
Italy has hosts OFFS such immigrants who have settled abroad, in Tunfs.
Argentina, he United States. There are tiles n America where Items and
even hundreds o. thousands of italian immigrants live. obviously he latter
constitute NJ right of annexation as regards those clues on the part of Italy.
flee a few thousands of F4unan italians who never hoped, wished, to be
annexed: The motive offs sentiment therefore, al he dismissed without further
argumen
() The imperalisic motive ought never to be allowed to triumph. BY
the possession of both Triete#a n Fiune.t the only w maritime outlets Of
vast hnterland, Italy would become absolute mistress of central Europe and
Jugo-Slavia as well. Now. Jugo-Sava has he right to live IN develop
unfetered. The triumph of Ia inperalsu mouve would involve var, in all
Germans. nor savs 10 Magyars. an allow Italy to hold roth the gates OF
their prison, Force of circumstances the necstyf for self preservation. will
untet them againstI Italy. The Grmans viii take Trieste The go-slavs and
Magyars will fight for Fiume.
The Jugo- Savs certainly dc 10 wish to see such "a ombnati realized
Through Ions centuries of bondage hey have been the only bulwatk aganst
German penetration towards both the Adratca and the east and they are pre-
pared to carry OF this task in reedom Butt political liberty without economic
independence is not worth having, an nations economically ensaved are
endted % defend themselves Therefore whoever wishes well to Europe ought
to help to brins about The defeat of italian imperialism; The great wr broke
sea n economically enshved. The Italian inperahsts wish to take the vacant
place of AUSTRIA Hungary in the Balkans. Such a contingency must be pre-
vented " every possible means.
80 The ear that Fiumem might become a dangerous ival of Trnste is a
motive deserving u most careful consideration, because it may lead US to find
the key to an equitable solution of the Fiume question. The fear is jushnable
and the blame for all it involves falls upon h supreme council n its mode
of treating the entire Adriatc problem.
BY aioting Trieste to Italy Internationally, the supreme council Invested
itself of the duty of protecting the commercial position of Trieste conse-
quenty of the just interests of Italy herself In its anxiety to protect h
whole import n export trade TO riume. That of course, endangers te com
mercialp position fTri@te.T Trieste suffers from having been assigned to me Of
treated a s enemy country n subject to provisions the peace treaty, reaps
the rich benefits entaned by such provisions.