Show Magnanimous Italy Italy shows magnanimity toward her annihilated foe Coe Austria Italy has more more reasons reason to fo detest Austria than France has to to detest Germany Austria has not only been a bad neighbor but Jail Jailer e er and executioner loner Y We e dont don't want you to govern us well we ve want you to get out In these words back In to Inthe inthe the MOg Mazzini hurled th the challenge of ot self determination n. n Into hito the face tace of ot ottlie the lie He anticipated the entente statesmen of ot 1918 by three three- e- e quarters of pf a century when he de declared lared that the crime of ot Austria was not that she was despotic but that thai she existed d. d To say today that Austria exists sounds like tike a mild exaggeration She is squirming at the feet reet of victorious Italy which has emerged from Metternich's Met- Met contemptuous geographical expression into one of ot the worlds world's lea leading pow powers ers Italian indifference or even exultation at the fate of ot the humiliated tyrant might not Inot be wise or or commendable it would certa certainly be human But to her credit Italy Ital knows better After the armistice Italian trains were the first to rush relief to starving starving In ing ing- Vienna Italian cities with Milan in the lead today are harboring thousands thousands thou thou- san sands s of famished Austrian children But Italian forgiveness do does s not end with Samaritan helpfulness It seems that the he recent visit of Chancellor Ren Render er of the German-Austrian German re republic republic republic re- re public to Rome has unlocked for his country the door to a better future I Details of ot his achievements are hot at hand but butt it would appear that Italy Ihas I has pledged reaching far assistance InI in economic reconstruction in matters of I exchange of ot raw materials and transportation transportation trans trans- and also important concessions conces conces- concessions I to the German minority in South Tyrol Austrian newspapers rejoice not only only only on on- ly in the material results obtained but also in the extremely hearty manner of Herr Renner's reception in the Italian capital The moral effect of the eVent on a people that seems to have lost Its nerve can hardly be overestimated From a business point of view Italy needs Austria commercially both as asla asla la la market and as the gateway to Czecho Hungary and Poland By his Austrian policy Premier of Italy confirms his claim to rank as one of the foremost statesmen of reconstruction New New York Tribune Republican |