Word: austria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every element in the balance, and after attaining a universal perspective of the situation. However, a careful investigation of the trend of history is hardly necessary, for during the past week, a significant illustration of the force of power has arisen. Premier Mussolini, in attacking the "intolerable interference" of Austria in the Upper Adige, or Italian Tyrol, is voicing the assurance of a nation which feels capable of enforcing its own policy and protecting its own boundaries and at the same time is on the point of sacrificing the principles of justice for those of force...
Anciently Sardinia was colonized by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Romans. By the House of Austria it was ceded in 1720 to the Dukes of Savoy in exchange for Sicily. Thus it is the modern seat of the ancient House of Savoy, now the reigning family of Italy...
...Austrian Parliament resounded last week with furious criticisms of the Italian Administration of Lower Tyrol. This province, which Italians call the Higher Adige, was transferred by post-War treaties from Austria-Hungary to Italy. Last week in the Austrian Parliament deputies Kold and Abrams of Higher Tyrol, which is still Austrian, luridly described the sufferings of Lower Tyrolese under Il Duce's regime of impetuous Italianization...
These charges are familiar, but what gave them weight last week was a statement by Chancellor of Austria Monsignor Ignaz Seipel. He rose in the Austrian Parliament and declared "The treatment of the Lower Tyroleans is in our opinion incompatible with minority rights, and is a hindrance to further amicable relations between Austria and Italy, which are very desirable." To explain and excuse the Austrian Parliament's outspoken criticism of Italian Administration of the Lower Tyrol, Chancellor Seipel shrewdly added "the Italian Government must realize that there is quite a difference between interference in another nation's domestic...
Result: The Italian Minister at Vienna, Signor Giacinto Auriti immediately left for Rome to inform Il Duce of precisely what had occurred. Rumor visioned a diplomatic break between Italy and Austria, but more likely loomed the prospect that Il Duce would administer to Austria a tongue lashing similar to that which he indulged in against Germany when Foreign Minister Doktor Gustav Stresemann flayed the Italianization of Lower Tyrol...