16 DECEMBER 1960, Page 11

lik.--- Your comment on the conflict between Austria od Italy over

the treatment of the German-speaking hirnnority in the Alto Adige views the problem in its '1.0r perspective. Like any minority group the uth Tyroleans are entitled to a fair deal and to be „i'rtlected against discrimination, One wonders, how- itvler. whether Austria has the moral right to take up and case and to pose as a defender of human rights tind dignity as long as she fails to honour her obliga-

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PUr (-2n to recompense the surviving victims of Nazi Sec and loossteiosn in and from Austria for their sufferings b /21fteco years have passed since Austria's liberation the Allied Powers which accorded her full ereignty by the State Treaty concluded in 1955. 1,kteinvisiln

etis of Nazi persecution have also become

Of . Austria's unwillingness to live up to dcnintfication measures.—Yours faithfully, NeW Cavendish Street, W F. L. BRASSLOFF