. Review of reviews and world's work . ion. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 571 ItalysExcitement Late in April it was Italys turn to raise afurious clamor, and Amer-ica was solemnly informedthat the Paris Conferencecould not even hold to-gether long enough to pre-sent the Peace Treaty toGermany. Floods of vitu-peration poured throughthe Italian press and thenation rose in wild excite-ment. The world had sup-posed that the port ofFiume, on the eastern sideof the Adriatic, would re-main as heretofore an out-let for the Croatians, Hun-garians, and other peopleswhose external commercehad long depended u
. Review of reviews and world's work . ion. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD 571 ItalysExcitement Late in April it was Italys turn to raise afurious clamor, and Amer-ica was solemnly informedthat the Paris Conferencecould not even hold to-gether long enough to pre-sent the Peace Treaty toGermany. Floods of vitu-peration poured throughthe Italian press and thenation rose in wild excite-ment. The world had sup-posed that the port ofFiume, on the eastern sideof the Adriatic, would re-main as heretofore an out-let for the Croatians, Hun-garians, and other peopleswhose external commercehad long depended upon therailroads they had built tothis natural harbor. Thesmall city of Fiume con-tains some thousands ofItalian residents and has a distinct Italiancharacter and sentiment. The immediatesuburbs are not Italian, and back of the portare millions of Slavic and other non-Italianpeoples. Many readers in America were puz-zled, and not a few who ought to haveknown better were misled and were scornfulin their denunciation of President Wilson. Photographs © Harris & Ewing, Washington PREMIER ORLANDO FOREIGN MINISTER SON NINO ITALYS OFFICIAL CHAMPIONS AT THE PEACE CONFERENCE few days Orlando and Sonnino went quietlyback and resumed their places in the PeaceConference. President Wilson had rendereda great service to Italy in securing the sup-port for Orlando which would enable thepresent Italian delegates to complete theirwork. Again, American readers must re-member that President Wilson is the onlyfor having made public the views which were head of an important delegation who has hadheld by practically everyone in the Peace sufficient assurance of his own tenure of officeConference regarding the proper disposition to give his whole mind to the essential ques-tions. But for the sympathy aroused by theattempt upon his life, Clemenceau, with hispresent Ministry, would probably have been of Fiume as a seaport. Since the collapse of the Haps- Wilsons Moue , t^ • t i • • t to Save burg
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