The Washington herald., 1920-03-11
GERMANY LOOKS.
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attic seaport, the Serblans will march
upon it and within twenty-four
hours seize it from d'Annunzio and
his forces.
"Originally. there was no popu-
lar demand in Italy for Fiume.
The Italian press was steered to-
ward wild Fiume propaganda by
an alliance between the Jewish
bankers of Trieste and the Son.
nino group of Rome.
THE former suddenly reasoned
that a Jugo-Slav Fiume would
destroy Italian Trieste. CONNER
cially. Trading and other ves-
sells would make Fiume their first
and possibly last upper Adriatic
port of call. they argued.
Behind Italian agitation for
Fiume there are undoubtedly many
factors. However. the least impor-
tant of these is by no means
Italy's desire to blaze a dominant
trail into the Balkans and the
Near East.
Nenice's sudden jealousy of
Ftume merely reads like a senti-
, mental chapter of past Venetian
history. 1t is much more tempera-
mental than Trieste's commercial
jealousy.
Ihe Serbians are quite willing to
nave Ffume a free League of Ma
lions state, absolutely independent
fof Italy and Jugo-Slavia alike. But
beyond this they will never will
lingly CO."
The Croats and Serbians.
Capt Gordon-Smith character
/ lzed the alleged hostility of the
Croats for the Serbians as Italian
propaganda. In this connection he
said: A'
ANY differences between the Ju-
go-Slavs and the Serbians are acci-
uental rather than essential For
thelr own purposes. the Italian,
nave been exaggerating minor in
ternal difficulties into pro-Italian
propaganda.
There is an agrarian problem
among the Jugo-Slavs which the
Croatian peasants wish solved i'm
mediately. They want the Serbian
system of peasant ownership of
land established throughout Jugo-
Slavia
Serbia cannot easily settle the
question of Jugo-Slav landlordism
Just at this moment. Economic and
social legislation, like the new cleo
tlons to parliament, must in large
measure wait upon the solution of
the problem of frontiers.
The Serbian harvest was very
large and Serbia economically could
be far worse off. She is even now.
In great measure. feeding Austria,
and could do more if her transpor-
tation facilities were better.
On the other hand Italy is de-
pendent upon the outside world for
good part of her food supplies
In the event of her taking up, arms
against Jugo-Slavia, England and
France would not dare to assist her
with the needed raw materials.
Besides. with this war and that
war, the Italians have been fight
ing for many years. AS a people
they are sick and tired of war and
the alarums of war and are most
unlikely to jump into another"
Conditions i'm England.
In Capt. Gordon Smiths ewes an
English labor government is not an
immediate prospect. He expects
Lloyd Georges downfall before
many months, but does not look for
a labor government for five years
at least. ''N'
However. he believes that labor
elements will undoubtedly infuen nee.
the selection of a new cabinet. sIp
England labor is being reckoned
with as never BEFORE" he asserted
Its cause Is in the powerful
hands OF statesmen who have never
been workers in the ordinary sanse
or the word. This circumstances has
given the labor movement a new
background and considerable mo-
mentnm."
Capt. Gordon-smith says there ia
is general belief in official Eu-
rope that the United States will
eventually join the league of ma
tions. He contends that Europeans.
Notwithstanding their nationalistic
lndividualisms, are doing a great
deal of international thinking.
Capt. Gordon-Smith's two sons
were killed in the war. Their mother
died from grief, following the sec
ond ones death.
He was in the historic and tragic
Serbian retreat. He had Just fin
tshed the mobilization of a Jugo-
Slav army iE the United States
when the armistice was signed.
This army of American Slavs was
to join forces with the depleted
Serbian ranks. For his various
services in behalf of the Serbians
Capt. Gordon-smith has been deco
rated by the Serbian government