Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 2 | Chose to Suffer

Chose to Suffer, "Italy freely chose to suffer. It probably prob-ably was not realized by our allies absorbed ab-sorbed In their own terrible struggle, that during the war Italy was often left to fight her battle 'alone against all the forces of the Austro-Hungarian empire, which were superior to us in position, numbers and materials. After the collapse col-lapse of Russia we struggled alone and conquered; "The break-up of the Austro-Hungarlan empire precipitated the fall of Germany. During tle war Italy suffered the greatest privations. She had the smallest quantity quan-tity of food and fuel and bore all sorts of hardships. Thousands of Italians lost all that made life dear to them, but, voluntarily, vol-untarily, with their eyes open, they entered en-tered the awful struggle for the fulfillment fulfill-ment of the noblest ideals and aspirations. aspira-tions. "Now the war has ceased for a year. Ever since the Italians have peen their national aspirations opposed with a hardness hard-ness and inflexibility which wounds them profoundly. I do not deny that mistakes may have been made by our statesmen, and have been made by our press, but the fact remains that all our allied have gained from the war infinitely more than Italy; that while Italy for long months has struggled, thus far it has been unsuccessfully un-successfully for her object, which, after all. has merely sentimental value. "Was it worth while to oppose us so cruelly regarding Flume? An irregular situation has arisen both In Fiumo and Dal mat ia. The discontent which has blazed up in our army and navy is the result of rnany errors of our own, but, above all I say it solemnly and deliberately deliber-ately they are in a great measure due to the conduct of our allies.