Evening star., 1921-08-05
CLAIM TO TYR0[
.BYITA[Y UPHELD
Senator Tittoni's View in d.
rect Conflict With That of
Lord Bryce.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSToWN. Mass. August 5.
I-Taking direct issue with Viscount
james Bryce, Tommaso Tittoni. pres
ident Of the Italian senate. last night
upheld the justice of Italy's claim to
Tyrol as made and accepted by the
Versailles conference. and declared
that his own country today stood as
the nation which has received the
smallest reward for her sacrifices in
4 the war" The declaration was an
eleventh-hour insertion in the open
ing moments of Senator Tittonfs lee
ture before the institutS of politics
and was frankly a reply to previous
lecture in which Lord Bryce. speaking
on the same platform last Tuesday:
! had said that Italy had mo historical
F., title whatever to the purely Germanic
Iregion she sought to acquire" ana
that any promise in the secret treaty
of 1915 was "a promise that ought
never to have been made"
| Speaks in Praise Of Lord Bryce.
II am an old friend and a great ad-
mirer." said Senator Tittoni, 'of Lord
| Bryce, whose life as a scholar. as a
writer and as a statesman has been
| entirely spent in the furtherment of
noble and generous ideals. But for
the very reason that he is esteemed
and loved by the whole world, l can
not allow to pass unanswered a state
| ment concerning Italy which came to
my notice during my trip from New
| York to Williamstown, and which
| seems to be lacking in that quality
of customary impartiality for which
Lord Bryce is SO justly noted.
| six hundred years ago Dante had
already answered Lord Bryce. Dante,
in fact. with farseeing vision. defined
Italy's natural boundaries. Let me
quote the following verses from
Longfellow's admirable translation:
Above in beauteous Italy lies lake.
! At the Alps foot that shuts in Germany,
Over Tyrol and has the name Benaco.
Designation Of Highest Peak.
"But the Alps that shut in Ger
many are none others than those that
belong to the range of the Brennero,
| whose highest peak significantly
bears the name of 'Vetta dItalia'-
Peak OF Italy. And from the Bren-
nero the Italian boundary should
nightly extend to the Quarnaro.
i Il cannot refrain from remarkine
that il it was Lord Bryces object tc
illustrate the disregard for the prin.
ciples of nationality which Lord Bryce
says is only too manifest in the treaty
of peace. He might better have
thought not Of the 100000 German.
of the southern Tyrol. now incorpor'
ated in Italy, but rather Of the more
than 100000 of Germans. Lithuan
: ians and Ruthenians allotted to Po
land. of the many more Germans ant
Hungarians who have fallen tt
Czechoslovakia, and the many NOR,
Hungarians, Germans and Bulgars alb
sorbed by Rumania. of the many mort
Germans. Hungarians and Turks an
nexed by Serbia and Of the man.
more Albanians, Bulgars and Turk!
annexed by Greece.
THE last country to which his
thought should have turned is Italy
which stands alone among the ma
tions that have issued from the wa
with increased population and en-
larged boundaries. as the national hav
ing within its territory land only fo
clearly manifest and vital motives
the smallest number of subjects o
foreign birth. and. moreover. as tn
only one of the victorious nations par
of whose sons are still separated
from their mother country. So tha
she stands today as the nation VIII
has received the smallest reward fe
her sacrifices. No. no. Italy has neve
been false to her noble traditions
She is and will remain the countr,
of liberty and justice"