The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-15
NATIONS JOIN
in CONFERENCE
France and Italy Com
bine in Isolation
of England

OF EnglanQ
By c. F. BERHTELLI
Staff Correspondent Universal
Service
PARIS, Sept. 12.-Isolate Britain!
That was the watchword of the con-
ference held today at 'Aix-les-B ains
between Premier Giolitti, veteran
statesman of Italy, and Premier Mil
lerand, of France, who loosened
French ties with England when he
recognized Baron Peter Wrangel as
the leader in the movement for the
rehabilitation of White Russia.
M. Millerand, learn, entered the
conference to make supreme ef-
fort to detach Italy from Great Bri-
tain and as inducements France, it
was forecast. will grant Italy a free
hand in the Adriatic and will recog-
nize the Fiume question as an inter-
nal affair of Italy's to be settled pri-
vately by Italy with Jugo-Slavia. On
the exchange France will ask Italy
to dismiss from Rome the diplomatic
representative of soviet Russia, who
has been persona grata for several
months together with a promise from
Italy henceforth to refuse to enter
negotiations of any kind with Rus
STA.
Also Premier Giolitti will be asked
to join with France in barring Ger
man representatives from any inter-
allied conference including the forth
coming one at Geneva, having to do
with the amount and notifications
of the German war indemnity, which,
according to the French policy,
strongly backed by Washington,
should be placed entirely at the dis
! erection of the reparations commits
sion in Paris.
In order to obtain the Italian
statesman's consent to her demands,
France already has signified her will
ingness to settle the question of
sharing the units of the former Aus
trian and German merchant marine
in accordance with the expressed
wish of the Italians in the matter.
Also France has just ordered the
French troops to evacuate the Island
of Castellorizo and will hand it over
to the Italians altho the Turkish
treaty which governs the disposition
of the island, has not been ratified.
No effort will be spared to isolate
Britain. Indeed, the war alliance of
France, Britain and Italy, has been
rapidly approaching dissolution and
probably will be smashed upon the
rocks of conflicting financial and
economic interests.
Altho official quarters are ex-
tremely recent, there is no longer
any mystery shrouding the fact that
France is unwilling to participate in
the projected Geneva conference, but
rather is inclined to substitute it
with separate negotiations with Ger
many concerning the matter of repa-
rations
Supported by majority in parlia-
ment, Premier Millerand has been
reported as in favor of severing
Frances old connections, which
French politicians strongly criticise,
maintaining they subject France to
British financial supremacy.
The premier is reported busy with
scheme by which France would
boldly encourage resumption of
the pre-war system of international
unions which, disregarding the
league of nations would be capable
Of supporting the French interests
in Europe and the Near East as well
as toward Germany.
The Franco-Be Belgian military alli-
ance just concluded, is the first step
towards a novel grouping Of the
European nations calculated to wrest
from England her old preponderance
of power. A refusal to participate
in the Geneva conference would be
ia second step by France toward iso-
lating Great Britain, while the for
nation at Frances suggestion Of the
little entente" comprising Poland,
Rumania, Czecho-Slavia, Greece and
Jugo-Slavia was a clever move to-
ward assuring to France military,
political and economic supremacy in
the perennially complicated Balkans
and incidentally bringing to her the
same sphere of influence in central
Europe formerly belonging to Ger
many.
These moves thus make France
the most powerful nation on the
European continent.
Against this new coalition Great
| Britain, Italy, Turkey, Bulgaria
and Austria have been expected to
conclude a political entente in order
| to create a proper balance Of power