Show II AlO ROW flOw HY WASHINGTO C Controversy Regarded as Possible Menace to I W World orld Peace I B FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE t ritten for The Telegram March arch t is without direct lre t interest Ij b controversy but the Incident I b i here as one that could I 5 rekindle e the European pow pow- f te barrei that plunged the Into war war- thirteen years ago aso o i that account Washington Is l r Ing developments de In Rome nome lir d and Tirana Tirana- vIgilantly At atter capital the seat ot of Allin Al- Al lin government a former f. f ington newspaper co e ei Is suard as American min mm- j 1 Charles r C. C Hart pC if th Port t j and Minneapolis une the state department is isi i t Uncle Sam will not be cooped on an any news bellicose or ls or of Importance to to thIs coUntry Washington diplomatists consid- consid Mussolini l as the stormy storm petrel In the new and perilous sit sit- i. In southeastern Europe A ot of the Mediterranean and es- es of oC the Adriatic sea shows glance lance the territorial territorial- condl- condl I n and rival Interests Involved the or of- the t s. s Croats and Slovenes enes Is J. J M-IY's M l Js nel neighbor at Fiume their respective borders meet the north stern corner or of the rd latic The seacoast ce runs southeasterly along the I I t. t Adriatic to the border or of Albania I M MADE DE MANY TREATIES t j Mussolini flushed with dictator dictator- I In Italy itself has been more or less openly revealing re his h- h to enhance Italian f In the field of oC foreign poll poU- cs s Ills His detractors have persistently persist persist- been accusing him hini or of Im- Im at the expense of 4 italy's nel neighbors and attributing to lm grandiose plans or of Napoleonic and caliber Three Thre-e years ago aJo Mussolini m- m upon a series ot of International al ah treaties for tor the manifest purpose purpose pur- pur pose of consolidating the Italian position po- po abroad The first one was toI in January 1824 with L 1 the ia country with which L I Italy tal Is now quarreling It was a treaty ot of neutrality and cordial collaboration col- col in case case ot of unprovoked L attack In September 1924 Italy made nade a treaty with Switzerland providing for tor conciliation and for arbitration or of all Last year rear l negotiated two treaties which ha hav n. n vital and direct bearing upon th tho crisis which has now arisen and In the opinion or of many authorities tb thuy y are the developments concretely responsible for Cor the crisis The first of these pacts was the Rumanian Italian treaty or of September 12 1926 which though on its face proViding for merely benevolent collaboration contains distinct suggestions or of a military alliance In November ember 1926 Italy Itah entered into a treaty with Albania fOr the avowed purpose of maintaining the political juridical and territorial quo or of Albania Article 1 or of the treat treaty declares that It Italy lo and Albania recognize that an any disturbance die dis- directed against the political po- po and territorial status quo or of Al Albania anla is opposed to their reciprocal political Interest MENACE is SEEN The Albanian pact caused Immediato imme Imme- diato anxiety In Jugo and convinced the Belgrade government that it was a palpable UlO o-iove on the part ot of Mussolini to bring Albania Albania Al- Al bania Into the Italian sphere or of Influence influence In- In fluence and e the country countr practically to the state ot of an Italian Italian Ital- Ital ian dependency With Albania Under under un- un der the control or of the Adriatic Adriatic Adri- Adri would be converted Into an Italian lake hake Jug osla vias via's outlet to the Mediterranean would be cut of t. t At the eastern end or of the Adriatic Is Albania Directly opposite on the thc western side of t that sea Is the heel ot of the boot which Ital Italy projects Into the Mediterranean What hat la frankly fears Is the domination ot of A by Rome with Imminent or ort t t least ever ever- present danger tI terrItorial ter- ter security An Albania In formal formal for for- mal alliance with Ita Itay and a a Rumania Rumania Ru- Ru mania which borders ia on the north ast in benevolent collaboration with Itah present a combination which which- the are bound to consider as t ot of p s- s sible menace INDUCEMENT WITHHELD Not long Ions ago aso Mussolini luss after protracted protracted pro pro- delay acknowledged Rumania's Ru Ru- manias mania's right to the former Russian province pro ot of annexed b by bythe the rest Buchl government after atter the orld orld war Ital Italy withheld Its recognition rec- rec of the ann i tl n jt it Isnow belle believed mainly because Mussolini desired to use it as as an Inducement to persuade Rumania t con lude the the c collaboration tr treaty a aY Y The Italian premier held off for another reported reason his disinclination to offend Russia until Italy had obtained ob- ob certain arrangements with the soviet for supplies ot of coal and Wheat heat Italy made a vigorous drive at the Versailles peace conference to acquire acquire ac- ac quire Albania ot of which she was in actual possession when the war ended But Woodrow Wilsons Wilson's self determination pro program ram and the unexpected unexpected un- un expected resistance of the Albanian n nationalists wrecked Italy's ambi- ambi Gabriele armed of Flume Fiume In 1919 was an expression o Italian resentment over the enforced eya of Albania Ital also has treaties of f ohl bo- bo ration and friendship with Czechoslovakia Czecho slovakia and of conciliation n and arbitration with German Germany Copyright |