Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mussolini has tried by brute force to Italianize these people by suppressing the local newspapers and forbidding the teaching of German in the schools. He has forced Austrian families to change their surnames, if there was any Italian blood in the stock. He has done these things in spite of the fact that in 1922 he and the King of Italy insured the people of Tyrol that they might live unoppressed. His actions prove the extent to which Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When...
...speedily added when a Budapest junk dealer was permitted to bid in for 1,800 pengoes ($300) a quantity of scrap parts which could not be positively identified as identical with or different from those discovered on New Year's Day at the Austro-Hungarian frontier by an Austrian customs official but since then exclusively in the hands of Hungarians...
...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...
...chastity to brutal [Italian] jailers!" Deputy Kold revamped in detail the familiar fact that Italianization of the Lower Tyrol (or Higher Adige) has been ruthlessly carried out, even to the extent of altering from German into Italian the very names of streets and the lettering on tableware in formerly Austrian hotels...
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...