The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1920-01-05
TWO PREM|ERS
TRY To SOLVE
F|UME PUZZLE
Signor Nitti, with Italian For
eign Minister, to Consult
Lloyd George.
WITH STRONGER
BACKING ON ADRIATIC
Observer Says Fear of Bolshevism
Makes Revision of Treaty with
Germany Necessary.
Nv TRUMAN H. TAILEY.
Special Correspondent OF the Herald.
[CopUi9ht, 1920, by the Ne,o York Herald
Compdny-AH Rights Rcserved.l
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I.oNDoN Sunda

LONDON, sunday.
Tomorrow marks the beginning Of the
new years international negotiations look
ing to a rectification Of last years confer.
ence work, which J. L. Garvin, in the OBJ
disastrous failures Of history when Pre-
mier Nitti and Signor Scialoia will arrive
here for three or four days conversations
with Lloyd George and Lord Curzon, after
which all will proceed to Paris for prob
ably months crowded session.
Premier Nittis indisposition is said to
be sufficiently abated to allow him to &C
company Signor Scialoia to London to-
morrow. leaving Paris early and arriving
here in the evening. 1t is believed the two
Premiers and the two Foreign Ministers.
with probably Bonar Law and Others win
return to Paris not later than Saturday.
The press opines that there Is plenty OF
business to complicate tho full Paris ses-
sion when it gets under way, out ohserv-
bridge until it is reached, as there seerna
TO be enough complication attending tho
NnSlo-ltalian conference beginning here
tomorrow night or Tuesday. There is al
most an agreement that the Italian off,
Gals are coming armed with stronger cree
dentials and national backing on the Adj
riatic question than at any previous time
ana that, despite waning italian enthusi-
asm for dAnnunzio's methods. there is a
stronger, though caliner, solidarity sup
porting complete Italian sovereignty for
t1ume than ever before
Italy United for FiuHe.
Rome los tpi,e 20
papers deride the general English favorit
ism toward Jugoslav aspirations and as
sert, as does the Sunday Times, that
Italy Is solid in her determination that
no other nation shall acquire sovereign
rights over fiumc, and that Nitti cannot
return from this conference with a mega
tive ruling without meeting an ovorwhe.m-
ing reverse"
1t appears that Italian opinion is only
divided over how control shall be OBJ
tanned. though united as never before on
the ultimate result. Observers here have
not forgotten the wide discrepancy be-
tween the optimistic communicate on the
last AnBlo-Italian conference in Downing
street and the pessmistic addresses OF
Nitu and Scialoia to the Italian Senate.
and this. with the stronger daily reaffir.
nation that Italy must have Fiume, serves
as a centre Of speculation on how ami
NupiS AHu now SUCCESSFUL VIII be this
weeks conversations
on the wider topic OF the full Paris con-
ference there is startling absence OF cls-
ton. or confidence rather. Such comment
as is available expresses the fear that the
world and even the negotiators them
selves do not realize what tremendous
odds stand against satisfactory decisions
or results.
Says Treaty Must he Revised.
Garvin today. renews his insistence that
the old treaty must be entirely revised
and that bigger gathering and far longer
period are required IL anything like order
Is to be brought out of the existing chaos.
Garvin calls the session another attempt
TO stabilize civilization" but with Europe
Balkanized by last years conference he
says 1t must pursue an entirely different
course.
Garvin re-echoes Churchili's warning of
Yesterday that the Bolshevist peril really
threatens the world. as a negative attitude
toward the revolutionaries together with
neglect Of Gcrmany's future by the Allies
can only lead to tho eventual spread Of
!. al turpitude into the Central En-
pres, with results which England, France,