Word: tyrol
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...more she pondered the fate of her native Tyrol, the more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
...rally in the Konzerthaus, earnest, 75-year-old Dr. Karl Renner, provisional Chancellor, gave 10,000 Viennese some stirring news: Socialist, Communist and Volkspartei leaders had united to demand return of the South Tyrol, which Italy had taken after World War I. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had tabled the appeal at London, but at least they had not killed...
...Police General Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Heinrich Himmler's specialist in mass execution-by-gas, was found hiding in a fortified chalet in the Tyrol with his adjutant, Artur Scheidler...
...said that Russia would occupy the richest industrial and mineral areas (Lower Austria and the upper part of Styria, including the factory-studded Vienna basin) and the richest agricultural province (Burgenland); the U.S. would get Upper Austria (scenery, orchards, cereals, salt, timber, water power); Britain would occupy Carinthia, the Tyrol, Vorarlberg and the lower part of Styria (Alpine scenery, water power, cattle). Unmentioned were the famed province and city of Salzburg (winter sports, music), which might go to France as a sop to its Big Power ambitions...
Last week Maastricht's citizens, wondering about the fate of their ants in bombed Berlin, were not very hopeful of ever getting the great collection back. As for Father Schmitz, when last heard from he was in the Tyrol collecting phorid flies, had already collected 1,000 species...