Italy at war and the allies in the west . ht, by a slight exercise of the imagina-tion, be translated into the great Austrianstronghold of Cattaro. Such is a reasonablyaccurate parallel to Italys Adriatic prob-lem. For purposes of administration the Trentino,which the Austrians call Sud-Tirol, forms oneprovince with Tyrol. For such a union thereis no geographic, ethnologic, historic, or eco-nomic excuse. Of the 347,000 inhabitants ofthe Trentino, 338,000 are Italian. The halfmillion inhabitants of Tyrol are, on the otherhand, all Germans. The two regions are sepa-rated by a tremendous mountain
Italy at war and the allies in the west . ht, by a slight exercise of the imagina-tion, be translated into the great Austrianstronghold of Cattaro. Such is a reasonablyaccurate parallel to Italys Adriatic prob-lem. For purposes of administration the Trentino,which the Austrians call Sud-Tirol, forms oneprovince with Tyrol. For such a union thereis no geographic, ethnologic, historic, or eco-nomic excuse. Of the 347,000 inhabitants ofthe Trentino, 338,000 are Italian. The halfmillion inhabitants of Tyrol are, on the otherhand, all Germans. The two regions are sepa-rated by a tremendous mountain wall, whoseonly gateway is the Brenner. On one side ofthat wall is Italy, with her vines, her mulberry-trees, her whitewashed, red-tiled cottages, herlight-hearted, easy-going, Latin-blooded peas-antry; across the mountains is the solemn, aus-tere German scenery, with savage peaks andgloomy pine forests, a region inhabited by astolid, slow-thinking Teutonic people. TheTrentino and the Tyrol have about as much incommon as Cuba and As Seen by an snow-trenches in the High Alps.
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