Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...German-speaking South Tyroleans. who once had a10-to-1 majority in the area, accuse the Italians of flooding the region with Sicilian and Neapolitan "immigrants" in an attempt to create an Italian majority...
...Austrian nationalists to enter the disputed region to help the German-speaking population celebrate the150th anniversary of a Tyrolean uprising against Napoleon, Austria called home its ambassador to Rome. Viennese newspapers said he had been "insulted" by being forced to cool his heels in an anteroom of the Italian Foreign Office. White-stockinged Tyroleans from the Austrian side, who look so gay in the travel posters, staged a grim memorial service outside Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral...
...students -most of them neo-Fascists-marched on the Austrian embassy and hurled stones at the riot police, who doused them with fire hoses and chased them down in red Jeeps. Going before the Chamber of Deputies to win a necessary vote of confidence for his new government, Italian Premier Antonio Segni attacked those who were making "political capital" of the South Tyrol issue, insisted that it is a "matter that concerns Italy alone." He was promptly voted into office by 333-248, the biggest majority that any Italian Premier, even De Gasperi, has had since the war. Austrians were...
...Himself born in the area, near Trento. He grew up an Austrian citizen, served seven years in the Austrian Parliament before entering Italian politics. To his death in 1954 he spoke Italian with a trace of an Austrian accent...