Evening star., 1923-09-04
BY THE MARaUIsE DE FONTENoY.

| 1t is not only in bombarding the
virtually defenseless Greek island of
! Corfu, and in suddenly landing armed
| forces in the internationalized city
of Tangiers, forming part of the en-
| pire of Morocco, in defiance of the
| provisions of the treaty Of Algeciras,
to which the United States is party,
that Italy is acting in an extraor-
binary high handed manner, regard
| less Of her relations with the various
great powers and in a manner cal
culated to disturb the peace OF the
world and to upset all the arrange
ments, concluded after so many
weary months of negotiations at
Lausanne, but it is also her eX-
traordinarily despotic and arbitrary
rulings with regard to the natives
and the foreign residents and tour
| lists who may visit the Austrian
! provinces that came under her sway
! by the terms of the treaty of Yer
sailles. Premier Mussolini has done
splendid work in the domestic afalrs
of the nation. in reorganizlng the
methods of its government and In
correcting its administrative abuses.
But he should be made to under
stand that his dictatorship does not
extend beyond the frontiers of Italy.
Thus, with regard to the southern
provinces of the former dual empire.
(which now form a part of the Italian
kingdom. they have been known.
| throughout the world, for near a
; thousand years, by the name OF Tyrol,
| the name being derived from the
sovereign counts of Tyrol or the
still existing castle of Tyrol. above
| Meran in the upper Adige valley, a
castle which, even as far back as in
the old Roman days, was a strong
| hold of the name of Teriolis. II
passed, through matrimonial alliance,
| into the hands of the Hapsburgs in
l12S2. and the entire Tyrol region
| continued in the possession OF the
! Hapsburgs, as dukes of Tyrol, until
the treaty of Versailles in 1919.
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! The italian governor of Tyrol has
now issued a decree, by direction of
| his premier, to the effect that the
use of the word Tyrol in the prov
! is vigorously forbidden, in conversa-
| tion. in all printed matter. on post
cards, even on shop and hotel signs.
Any one violating the provisions of
| this decree will be punished. under
article 434 of the Italian penal code,
| by arrest, fine and Imprisonment fol-
| lowed in the case Of foreigners by
! expulsion. The object is, of course,
| to completely Italianize the Tyrol.
! But one cannot change overnight
| the name of a country which has
some of the been identified with
some of the most heroic pages of the
| history of Europe. 1t Is well that
this should be widely known on this
| side of the Atlantic. for the Tyrol
has always possessed particular at
! fractions for American tourists and
| If they are now SO incautious as to
make use of the name, even in con-
versation, while within the new
/ frontiers Of Italy, arrest, fine, i'm
| in the face.
Incidentally, it may be pointed out
| that Italy has frequently. especially
within the past hundred years, been
| the part of her banditti upon for
eigners, thousands Of whom have
been robbed, killed, blackmailed and
! held for ransom by brigandS, either
| working on their own account or
under the auspices OF those Infamous
criminal organizations so widely
known as the South Italian Camorra,
and the Sicilian Malta. Yet no great
power has ever seen fit to proclaim
| immediate war upon Italy on that
account, to send it's fleet to lombard
q defenseless Italian city at only a
italian government and nation re-
sponsible for the crimes of few
brigands whose identity. as in the case
of the recent ambushing of Italy's
frontier commission in Albania was un-
| known. These latter bandits are
Just as likely to prove to be AL
banians as Greeks. For there are
plenty of people i'm Albania who have
everything to gain from stirring up
trouble between Italy and Greece. 1t
L.. po0 n CT
action of Italy in bombarding Corfu
and in landing her troops at Tan
giers, without previous arrangement
with the other treaty powers Of the
congress of Algeciras, to which Italy,
as well as the United States. were