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The Italo-Austrian Agreement on the Austrian South Tyrol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1947

References

1 Article 10.

2 2 September 5, 1946.

3 See Josef L. Kuiiz, Die Bevision der Pariser Friedensverträge, Vienna, 1932, pp. 16-18, 209-210.

4 Baker, Bay Stannard, Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement, New York, 1922, Vol. II, p. 146.Google Scholar

5 Tätigkeitsbericht der österreichischen Friedensdelegation, Vienna, 1919, Vol. II, pp. 210-212; see also the Austrian note on the Austrian Southern Tyrol: the same, Vol. I, pp. 140-141, 159-160.

6 Tätigkeitsbericht, Vol. II, p. 629.

7 F. Klein, Die Revision des St. Germainer Vertrages, Vienna, 1920 ; Grabmeyr, Südtirol, 1919; H. Voltelini, A. Verdross, W. Winkler, Deutsch-Südtirol, Vienna, 1925; A. Verdross, Die rechtliche Lage Deutsch-Südtirols, 1926; P. Herré, Die Südtiroler Frage, Munich, 1927; Mayreiter, Die Literatur über Südtirol, Innsbruck, 1926.

8 Ainsi qu ‘il résulte des déclarations très nettes faites par le Président du Conseil ăes Ministres a’Italie au Parlement de Borne, le Gouvemment Italien se propose d’adopter une politique largement libérale envers les nouveaux sujets de race allemande, pour ce qui concerne leur langue, leur culture et leurs intérêts économiques: Tätigkeitsbericht, Vol. II, p. 323.

9 Same, Vol. II, p. 330.

10 See, apart from the literature quoted in note 7 : Bouton, S. M. and Herford, Ch. H., English and American Voices about the German South Tyrol, New York, 1925 Google Scholar ; Fingeller, , Die Wahrheit über Südtirol, 19181-1926 Google Scholar; Herford, C. H., The Case of German South Tyrol against Italy, London, 1926 Google Scholar; F. K. Hennersdorf, Südtirol unter itelienischer Berrschaft, 1926; Beut-Nicolussi, , Tyrol under the Asce of Fascism, London, 1930 Google Scholar; see also for a brief report, Kunz, Josef L., “Italian Rule in German South Tyrol” in Foreign Affairs, Vol. V (1927), pp. 500505 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

11 Fascist Italy pursued the same policy of Italianization toward her minority of 400,000 Yugoslavs.

12 Part I, Sec. I, Art. I, lays down that “The frontiers of Italy shall, subject to the modifications set out in Articles 2 (France), 3, 11 (Yugoslavia), 4, 22 (Free Territory of Trieste), be those which existed on January 1, 1938.”

13 The British Foreign Secretary Bevin had, on June 4, 1946, called the complication of Austrian rail transport caused by the amputation of South Tyrol “silly”: The New York Times, June 26, 1946, p. 10.

14 See this writer ‘s Editorial Comment “The Future of the International Law for the Protection of National Minorities” in this Journal, Vol. 39 (1945), pp. 89-95.

15 The United Nations Human Rights Commission has appointed a Subcommittee for the prevention of discrimination and protection of minorities.

16 See Kunz, Josef L., Prolegomena zu einer allgemeinen Theorie des internationalen Bechtes nationaler Minderheiten in Zeitschrift für öffentliches Becht, Vol. XII (1932), pp. 221272 Google Scholar.

17 La Tchécoslovaquie s’engage à organiser le territoire des Ruthènes au sud des Carpathes sous la forme d’urne unité autonome à l’intérirur de l’état tchécoslovaque, munie de la plus grande autonomie compatible avec l’unité de l’état tchécoslovaque: Czechoslovak Minority Treaty, Art. 10.

18 Granted by the Esthonian Law of February 5, 1923.

19 Such as the “local autonomy concerning religious and school questions” granted to the “community of Szekler and Saxons in Translyvania” by Art. 11 of the Rumanian Minority Treaty.