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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1' HE issue of President Wilson's manifesto to Italy and 1. the world on the dispute between the Italians and the South Slays was a momentous event. The news from Paris for days past had informed everybody that the dispute bad reached something like a deadlook, and it was even expected that Signor Orlando and Baron Sonnino might at any moment take their departure from Paris ; but no one would have prophesied that Mr. Wilson, greatly daring, would at this stage decide to pass over all the diplomatic mechanism of the Conference—which it should be remembered is the League of Nations in embryo—and make an unprofessional appeal to the whole world to act as judge.

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