FATE OF SOUTH TYROL
SIR,—Lovers of elementary justice, quite apart from particular lovers of Austria, must be sorely disappointed with the Foreign Secretary's reply to the debate on the South Tyrol on July 25th. It confirmed our worst fears that the future of South Tyrol and its Austrian inhabitants has been bargained away. It even appears that the lip-service which the Italian Government is paying towards a better treatment of this minority is being believed when the simplest enquiry would reveal that what it gives with one hand it takes away with the other. As for the Foreign Secretary's confident appeals for harmony based on a better economic understanding, in this case, they can sound well only to those who know little of the deep-rooted local feeling, for the Tyrolese will no more readily live and let live under Italian rule than oil will mix with water.—Yours faithfully,
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