Word: bolzano
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germans she was acquiring, scarcely had Fascism begun to operate in Italy before the South Tyrolese became one of the worst treated minorities in Europe. In an effort to Italianize the district, German schools were forbidden, German newspapers outlawed, German place names changed (Bozen, for instance, became Bolzano), even German surnames on tombstones were effaced...
...heels of this solution came an Italian order for all other foreigners, tourist or resident, to clear out of Bolzano Province immediately. Hardest hit by this precipitate measure were about 300 Swiss, many of whom operate the resort hotels in the district...
Crown Prince Umberto obliged Dictator Benito Mussolini last week with a few personal appearances in the Italian Tyrol. Arriving at flag-bedecked. half-Austrian Bolzano (formerly Bozen), guarded by soldiers and Black Shirts, His Royal Highness inaugurated a public works program. He then visited Merano where he dedicated a monument to Italian Alpine troops. Meanwhile, his Belgian consort, Crown Princess Maria Jose, inspected welfare centres...
...whose entire career has been studded with such aphorisms as "Fascism has already stepped and, if need be, will quietly turn round to step once more over the more or less putrid body of the Goddess Liberty!" finally bowed last week to the mob. From a Cabinet meeting at Bolzano amid Italy's war games (see p. 21), the Dictator announced that Italy will expound before the League Council this week the troubled history of Italo-Ethiopian relations for the past 50 years "depicting Ethiopia as she is in her chaotic condition of retrograde slaveholding tribes with non-existent...
Since it is doubtless too late for the Dictator to patch up that mistake in the public view, greater World interest focused on his other words last week at Bolzano: "Italy has a question to settle with Ethiopia. She does not have and does not wish to have questions with Great Britain. . . . The Fascist Government thinks that Italy's colonial question should have no reaction on the European situation, unless one wishes to run the risk of letting loose a new World War in order to prevent a great power like Italy from bringing order to a bad country...