Word: tyroler
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...Etsch bis an den Belt!" How about that? The Etsch (called Adige by the Italians) is at present and has been for 20 years held by the countrymen of Mussolini, who a few months ago had completed his plans for driving out of the Adige territory (southern Tyrol) everybody who dared speak the German language. And the Belt is held by Denmark,* whose integrity has only a few days ago been formally guaranteed by the Führer. What has become of the traditional German exactness? The song ought to read "from the Brenner to Flensburg...
Almost forgotten in the ballyhoo about home-yearning German minorities in Eastern Europe is the fact that Allies Italy and Germany also have between them a little minority problem of their own. Living just south of the Brenner Pass, in what Austrians call the South Tyrol and the Italians insist upon referring to as the Upper Adige, are some 200,000 German-speaking people who, by the Treaty of St. Germain signed in 1919, were transferred from Austrian to Italian sovereignty. Last week the Fascists and the Nazis, having long soft-pedaled this delicate situation, decided to solve...
...resisted Italianization, and Benito Mussolini must have reluctantly concluded that these Germans would always be Germans. As for the Führer, he was short of labor at home, particularly of farm labor, and would welcome the agricultural Tyrolese back. Last week the following joint agreement on the South Tyrol problem was suddenly sprung...
Correspondents were at a loss to know why the Italians, just at the height of the tourist season, had deprived themselves of badly needed foreign exchange. The Italian explanations were not much help. First, it was announced that foreigners were ordered out because of widespread "espionage" in the South Tyrol. Next, they had to go for "military" reasons...
Adolf Hitler wrote his inflammatory testament in 1924-26, when he was an irresponsible rabble-rouser. When he became chief of State, Mein Kampf became something of a diplomatic embarrassment. Its many German editions have been somewhat toned down. Blasts against Italy for subjugating Austrians in the Italian Tyrol were eliminated when the Rome-Berlin axis was formed. More recently it was promised that blasts against France would be withdrawn...