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Show ? WHY ITALY HELD I ! OUT FOR FIUMEI 1 i t All the Other Powers Had Received Safeguards From the Conference. Mi DENVER Tolo.. May 5 Italy s tern-jiorary tern-jiorary withdrawal from the peace! jji i onference at Taris will have no ill i IP :fect on thr- friendly relations bet ween) that country and the United Stan 9, according to Dr X. M. Tipple, pres- M ident of the Methodist college in ,P Home, who addressed a luncheon at 'I'll lended bv Methodist laymen here to-! day. "Italy would have surrendered her I claims to Flume, I feel quite sure." j ffi he said. "At the beginning of the' IfsJI conference she had accepted President M Wilson's fourteen principles. At that IiKd time Italy did concur and does yet concur in every principle then set forth IN by our president They looked upon him as the world's greatest man and FliS fp'1 triat fkp fourteen points guaran teed them protection. "But later the United States insisted insist-ed that the Monroe doctrine be not taken from us She wondered whe-rcifii whe-rcifii 'her. righth or wrongh I cannot ? 1 if she could depend so wholly on the league of nations for protection and surrender Flume which safeguards her on the Adriatic, then the United States could depend on the same league and; give up the Monroe doctrine. The Knglish demanded and received the Hill r'Sht 1o be mistress of the seas. France Hill was n en Alsace-Lorraine and given I Hfn part of Morocco and other valuable concessions that made her a power Hln fu nallon- Then came the conipro-D conipro-D flf mise with Japan. "Consequcntlv, Italy feels that since, the othei nations have found it neces-I ft f? sary Lo surround themselves with safe-rl safe-rl rJ guards she cannot depend entirely on The league of nations and ils promises !fN lor her future welfare " .1 kiifl |