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...Fascist Rome fulminated, last week, at Socialist Vienna. The quarrel started last fortnight when the Chancellor of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel encouraged deputies in the Austrian Parliament to flay the alleged oppressive Italian administration now existing in the formerly Austrian province of Lower Tyrol (TIME, March 5). Last week Signor Benito Mussolini hurled back a reply from the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Cried...
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...
...Finally Signor Mussolini delivered a very suave but unmistakable warning to the Austrian Parliament. "A State which respects itself," he said, "cannot tolerate foreign interference. Mr. Fuller, the Governor of Massachusetts, has supplied us with a striking example on that subject...
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...
...expected counter blast from Signor Mussolini was anticipated last week by the authoritative Giornale D'ltalia of Rome which described Chancellor Seipel's speech as "insincere," and asserted that the Higher Adige is governed "with the same regime and the same application of rights and duties as those prevailing in all other Italian provinces...