SOUTH TYROL DISPUTE .

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 13945, 24 December 1945, Page 3

SOUTH TYROL DISPUTE .

AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR’S STATEMENT CZECHOSLOVAKIAN OPINION Vienna, Dec. 22. Austria would claim the return to her of the South Tyrol, said the new Chancellor, Dr. Leopold Figl, in his first speech to Parliament. He declared that the restoration of territorial unity was one of the most important steps for reconstruction. Dr. Figl appealed to the Allies for a reduction of the occupation forces and the opening of the demarcation lines in dealing with domestic issues. The Chancellor said the Government intended to, nationalise a number of hoy industries, particularly certain sections of the power industry. The Government would not hesitate to step in when private enterprise failed from social, political or business viewpoints. He promised co-operation with neighbouring countries, particularly Czechoslovakia-, Hungary and Yugoslavia, with whom it was the Government’s most urgent task to make contact and discover solutions for differences. A message from Prague states that the Foreign 'Minister of Czechoslovakia. M. Jan Masaryk, expressed marked impatience with the Polish and Hungarian attitudes to Czechoslovakia. He said emphatically that Czechoslovakia would not give territory to either hut was ready to talk cm other subjects with both. ?d. Masaryk added that the Czech Government had sent a Note to Warsaw to this- effect. The Swiss Federal Council, according to a message from Botne. Decided to recognise the Hungarian Government and expressed the hope that an early resumption of diplomatic relations would he possible.