Evening star., 1920-02-26
ADR|AT|C NOTES
WILL Be REVEALED
T0PUBL|C TODAY
Wilson Insists on December
Agreement-ItaIy and Jugo-
sIavia May Settle Trouble.

| Final decision to publish the ex-
changes between the American gov
ernment and the entente premiers on
the Adriatic question was reached
| today. Seven notes in ell will be
, made public late today at the State
| Department. Officials estimated that
the total text would run close to H.
| 600 words.
h. lnsixts ON December Psnn..
/ LONDON, February s6.-President
Wilson's note to the supreme allied
I council relative to the Adriatic set
| tlement was ready for consideration
| when the council opened its session
! this morning. Although officials have
made no statement relative to the
contents of the note, it is understood
/ not to contain the menace of Amer
! ican withdrawal from European af-
fairs. but insists upon the adoption
| of the Adriatic plan agreed upon
December last.
''ConciIiatory in form. but firm in
| substance and distinctly more mod
crate than its predecessor" is the
description which the Daily Mail
understands is applicable to Mr.. Will
sons note.
The newspaper adds the communi-
cation will be answered by Great
Britain and France. as italy takes
the attitude the note does not, apply
to her in view of the standing en-
gagement that failing a compromise
on the Adriatic question the pact Of
London will be put into force.
May settle Own Quarrel.
Cnblexram to The Star and the Chi
cnKo Daily News. Copyright, 1870.
PARIS, February 26.-The next step
in the Adriatic controversy will be an
earnest effort on the part of both 1tal-
ians and Jugoslavs to reach an agree
ment by direct negotiations. The
| make every possible concession. Pre-
mier Nitti himself has said. Il am de-
termincd to make friends with the Jugo-
slavs even against their will
While Jugoslavia raises sufficient
food for her own consumption her in
ternal revenue is entirely insufficient for
her financial needs and she is obliged
to have recourse to the generosity of
France, Britain and Italy, who advance
her a joint loan of 50,00O.000 francs
NORMALLY. s10.00o,00O) a month against
future indemnities from the former
enemy states. Moreover. her internal
situation is much disturbed. Her states
men are we'll aware that Premier Nitti
probably is more disposed to compromise
than any one who might succeed him
would be. 1t is. therefore, to their in
terest as we'll as to Itaiys to reach
Action Delays ComprOmixe.
1t is felt that if the two interested
parties can agree between themselves,
President Wilson could offer no OBJ
lection. Prior to the Presidents last
note the atmosphere was already IA
vorable to a compromise On the basis
of France and Britain'S famous "ulti-
matum" to the Jugoslavs When this
ultimatum was presented in the coun-
Gil OF ambassadors in Paris on Janu-
airy 20 the complete silence of Am
bassador Wallace. the American rep-
resentative, led the Jugoslavs to be-
lieve that President Wilson was prob
ably in accord with France and Brit
ain. The negotiations were tending
toward IA compromise. when the Will
son note arrived and swept away such
possibilities.
Prof. Victor Berard. an eminent
student of foreign affairs. while pro-
Tossing warm friendship for the Jugo-
slavs. has come out in favor of the
Italian compromise and against Pres
ident wilson's position in the matter
of Fiumc.
The Italians. he points out. are
ready to accept either public or Sc
cret arbitration while the Juposlays
cling stubbornly to the WiIsonian
formula and refuse even to arbitrate.
a frontier which will afford them
military safety and obviate the ne
cessity of living indefinitely under a
regime of armed peace. Italy has now
abandoned practically all the claims
save as to Istrai. Fiume. the counties
Of Goritza and Gradesca and the is
land of LISA. The population Of
these districts comprises 2So. 900 Ital-
ians. against 100000 Jugoslavs.
Foreigners Disposed OF.
Now comes the kernel of Prof. Be-
rard's argument. To avoid an armed
peace Italy. nation Of 38 5000, 900 in
habitants. desires to annex 100000
foreigners. For exactly the same mo-
tive. to secure a safe frontier against
their neighbors. Jugoslavia. a nation
of 100000 Inhabitants, has actually
already been granted by President
Wilson and the other allied chiefs
the right to annex 100000 to 10000
Germans, 100000 Rumanians. 100000
Bulgarians and 100000 to 10000 AL
banians-a total of from 100000 to
100000 foreigners. Under these cir
cumstances Prof. Berard believes that
it is to the Jugoslavs' own interest to
accept the Italian compromise