Life — May 8, 1919 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Sete a tare old Gir old rickety rachety crew! MAY 8 Wis ‘* Whale there is Life there’ Hope ublished by LIFF. ident and Treasurer 7 West English Offices iim ARNING much Anoxew Mirine. Pr about the front gates and hack yards of Europe is some strain on the attention of folks past the school ge, but, no doubt, we can do it so far necessary Fiume (which the kind reader r pronounce to rhyme with “ gloomy unless he prefers to have it rhyme with “ plume”) looks attractive on the map, at the top of a bay that eats up into what was lately Austria antly embellished with islands the private deal that France made with Italy when she came into the war, Trieste and the Trentino were assigned to Italy, but not Fiume. The Ttalian explanation of that omission is that at the time of the deal it was sup- posed that Austria would survive tt war, and though Fiume is by descent and partly by sentiment an Italian cit is pleas- and England still, as a self-governing town and a port of a considerably sophisticated empire, it did not fare ill. Be Austria suddenly collapsed int and the possibility transpired « Jugo-Slavs, Aus appetite for when scraps. turn. ing Fiume over to the people much less polite th trians, the latent Italian Fiume blazed out into an iniportunate violence of desire, which, as must have been noticed, has brought considerable upon the P gress. Mr. Wilson has considered that because of the practical difficulty and expense of putting all the Balkans in the asylum, where they seem to belong. an the embarrassment Con- it is necessary to assign them a port on the Adriatic, and that Fiume is the port best adapted to that use. South of it the coast has harbors, but a range PUBLISHING Thirtystirst Rolls House COMPANY, Janes S. Mrrcatee. Secretary Street. New York Breams Bldgs., Loi ains close to the sea cuts them ad communication with country He therefore, that it of me otf from railr the back cannot see, accords with principles of the fourteen points to turn Fiume over to Italy, especially ufter acquiescing in her claims 10 Trieste. France and Great Britain, up to this time of writing, have held their peace about it all, but their delegates are understood not to be favorable to Italy's demand \ couple of generations ago, when we had Indian troubles, it used to be proposed to solve them by boarding all the Indians at the Fifth Avenue hotel, and thereby save trouble and expense So a nice solution of the wrangle over Fiume would he to send the Aquitania Leviathan to Fiume and Italian and the big take all its protracted excursion inhabitants on a But those steam ers cannot now be spared for that pur pose, and the difficulty will have to he settled where it lies. It can be settled hy a change of ministry in Jtaly, and Not all Fiume so indis that solution is not impossible Italian statesmen see pensable as Orlando and Sonnino do. them felt territorial Some of months ago that Italy's extreme aspirations were foolish As for the its Italy over this Fiume matter, they popular demonstrations remind one of the enthusiasm in the Northern States in the Civil War, when Commodore Wilkes took Mason and Slidell off the Trent. Hats went up in r, and the people with a huge vo- ciferation said it was splendid, But concluded ly our government that so much glory was dear at the prospective price, and Mason and Sli- ell were unobtrusively handed over to England So, presently, Fiume may look too dear to Italy, but if not, there will still be a League of Nations, and presently a signed peace, and whether Italy stays outside of that League or comes in, is for her to say. If she seizes Fiume ani stays out, we shall have an object les son, timely and perhaps useful, of hoy the League operates inst offender HE covenant of the League of Na- tions has been the more important criticisms of the first draft. that this been heeded, and it is thought that when it comes back here Senator Bo rah does not approve of it yet; Senator Hiram Johnson is looking it over and taking thought about it; Senator Lodge has not, at this writing, expressed his rewritten, and were made in country have the Senate will accept it views of the revised instrument, but as it stands now, adopted by the Coun- cil, it will he submitted to the Senate, and there is no special profit in antici- pating what individual senators will do. When the time comes we shall see. Meanwhile Japan. has conflicting stories accepted it There were new an out what Japan would do kept) Paris is the Oriental every day The Oriental guessing as diplomats way. but Italy y by her emotions Japan seems hardly so liable as to be carried aw The heen affected hy the exigencies of do- Italian delegates seem to. have mestic polities, but that does not ap- pear in the case of Japan HE Germans are at Versailles, and the discussion of peace terms with them, and the final near at hand. In another month, per- will be settlement, seem coming called haps, our President home and Congress may be again. There is not much rest in sight for the weary, though to have our cap- ital moved back from Paris to Wash- ington will be an appreciable gain. It is only a year now before we have to comicbooks.com