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Show TITTONI MAKES A VEILED ATTACK ON WILSON COURSE ROME. Sept. 27. (By the Associated ' Press. Tomasso Tittoni, foreign miniF-tor, miniF-tor, speaking in the chamber of deputies today, devoted most of his attention to 1 the status of President Wilson in the peace activities. The foreign minister said he had suffered daily anguish ove;-the ove;-the delay in the settlement of Italy's problems, declaring It was thought thai the departure from Paris of President. AVilson would facilitate the task of tho Italian delegates. On the contrary, Signor Tltton! asserted, assert-ed, it had been made more serious and complicated, as the American peace delegation dele-gation had to communicate with tho president by cable, which made delay Inevitable. "The question of our relations with President Wilson will havo to be cleared up some day," the foreign minister continued. con-tinued. "The inquiry must not be limited lim-ited to the period commencing with the. opening of the peace conference, but must go back to the time of the intervention inter-vention of the United States in tho war, and oven further. "From the time of President Wilson' manifesto in November, 1910. it waft ' clear he intended to become an arbiter between the combatants. After the Intervention In-tervention of the United States, this characteristic of arbiter became accentuated. accentu-ated. From December 27. 1917. our foreign for-eign ministry was informed that President Presi-dent Wilson would be considered in Ornni. Britain as the supreme arbiter, be it for continuation of tho war or for the drafting draft-ing of peace terms. Pome of our diplomatic diplo-matic agents warned the government ft was necessary to secure, without delay, President Wilson's support for our national na-tional claims." Signor Tittoni said that when tho war endd with victory, he was convinced Italy would be given recognition of her national aspirations proportionate to her sacrifices. "On the contrary," he added, "thn Italian peace dH agates hud to engage in a daily struRgle to obtain merely partial par-tial recognition of Italy's na t lonal program. pro-gram. The peace conference, had to forego fore-go ita principal task of drafting peace terms and chance iiself into an assembly to settle the fate of the whole of Europe, to create new state?, lo fix new frontiers and to govern Kurope. Tf the peace conference con-ference is not or em mot be replaced by the league of nations. It is lni possible t" foresee when the activities of the conference con-ference will end." |