Word: regional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President of the U.S. at his news conference, the U.S. could take only one "logical" stand: "We are not going to give one single inch in the preservation of our rights, and of discharging our responsibilities in this particular region, especially Berlin. There can be no negotiation on this particular point...
...promise that drew Italy into the war on the side of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia), the victorious Allies awarded Italy the strategic Brenner Pass and a slice of Austrian Alpine territory the size of Connecticut leading up to it. The Italians changed the name of the region to Alto Adige, Italianized town and street names. Benito Mussolini's eager henchmen even substituted "Giovanni" for "Johannes" on tombstones...
...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...
Last week, when Italy refused to allow two 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...