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Bemelmans was a Bavarian problem child. When he failed to pass the first grade of a school for dunces he was sent to the Tyrol to work in the inn of his prosperous Uncle Hans, whom his grandfather, a big brewer, called the "other Lump." The first Lump was Bemelmans' father, a Belgian painter who ran away with Ludwig's French governess. Uncle Hans likewise despaired of little Ludwig, whom he called "Lausbub" (lousy boy, or Katzenjammer kid), sent...
Many of these Austrian veterans, although they are Italian subjects today, have been loudly agitating for the merging of Italian Tyrol with Greater Germany (TIME, June 13). Italians hope they will now lap up their Fascist gravy quietly and stop crying for Nazification...
Crown Prince Umberto obliged Dictator Benito Mussolini last week with a few personal appearances in the Italian Tyrol. Arriving at flag-bedecked. half-Austrian Bolzano (formerly Bozen), guarded by soldiers and Black Shirts, His Royal Highness inaugurated a public works program. He then visited Merano where he dedicated a monument to Italian Alpine troops. Meanwhile, his Belgian consort, Crown Princess Maria Jose, inspected welfare centres...
...mountainous South Tyrol sticks out as the weakest spot in the Berlin-Rome axis. Promise of this 30-mile, largely vertical strip along the Italian-Austrian border was part of the secret deal which in 1915 brought the Kingdom of Italy into the World War against her former Central Powers allies. No minorities treaty was signed by Italy, but until minority-hating Fascism's advent there was little oppression of the German population. In 1923 a determined program of oppressive "Italianization" was inaugurated. In the district's schools only Italian teachers conducting lessons in Italian were allowed. Germanic...
...Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...