Word: ils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alluding scornfully to the present puny strength of Austria, Il Duce rapped: "We are not anxious about our northern frontier. Hannibal is not at our gates. Neither is Monsignor Seipel...
Picking up a sheaf of reports, Signor Mussolini then quietly settled down to quote evidence that Teutons are not being oppressed in the former Lower Tyrol, now called by Italians the Higher Adige. Declaring that 15 German language newspapers are still printed in the Higher Adige, Il Duce asked rhetorically: "Is this Fascist barbarity...
Since of the 14 cabinet posts Il Duce himself holds seven,* and since the other seven ministers are, with two possible exceptions,† absolutely his creatures, there could be no opposition. The law was straightway approved by Cabinet decree, to become effective as follows...
...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...
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...