UN General Assembly
1959

14. The South Tyrol problem which, of course, remains a national question, is increasingly becoming a social and an economic concern. It is one of the more tragic aspects of the problem that, in a court of law, a South-Tyrolese will probably be faced with a judge with whom he cannot communicate in his own language. Among those to whom jurisdiction over the South Tyrol — with a population of a quarter million — is entrusted, there are only five South-Tyrolese judges. The parliamentary representatives of the South Tyrol have repeatedly sought redress of this utterly unsatisfactory state of affairs; they have also submitted a draft bill outlining the proper autonomous status for the region of South Tyrol.