SOUTH TYROL
Sin,—I am very glad to see that, in your current issue, you say " Un- questionably South Tyrol should be restored to Austria." As one who has visited the South Tyrol, better known to many of us as the Dolomites, for over forty years, I should like to support this view as strongly as I can. I very much hope that the present frontier on the Brenner will be moved south again, though not so far south as it was before the first World War. The obviously right position for the political or territorial frontier would, I think, be the same as the language frontier. If I re- member rightly, prior to 1918 the two were about twelve miles apart. The Austrian inhabitants of the Dolomites were very bitter against the Italians, and very much resented the wholesale introduction of the Italian language, and Italian names, postmasters, school teachers, stationmasters and all the rest. I shall never forget the very bitter way in which the German-speaking inhabitants of the Bitten above Bozen or Bolzano spoke of the transference from Austria to Italian rule, and this is typical, I
believe, of the whole area.—I am, Yours faithfully, J. R. ECCLES. The Elms, Lower Darwen.
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