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CV -- was referred to as the Alpine watershed as the natural northern border, meaning Ticino and the southern tip of Graubünden between Roveredo and San Bernardino. This means: essentially Italian ethnographic area. l9l9 Paul Vinassa, then Rector of the University of Pavia, introduced the new concept of the "Alpine Middle Chain". He expected the Anschlues of German Austria to be annexed to the Reich and demanded that the areas south of the Catena mediana delle Alpi be integrated: Ticino, Graubünden, East Tyrol and southern Carinthia, including Villach. In Switzerland, the Adula Circle worked on this basis. In the years 1935-38, works by Paolo Drigo /Claustra Provinciae/, Giulio Renzini /L'Itali- anita sulle Alpi/, Giorgio Lubera /Dal Monte Bianco alle Bréone/, numerous essays by Aurelio Garobbio and other publications were published. Drigo turned passionately against the ethnic principle, demanded the annexation of Albania, the independence of Monte negro, the extension of the Italian territory from the High Tauern in a rather wide eastern arc to the Dinaric Alps and finally the securing of an Austrian position of march against the Empire - it will not be possible to deny that this programme has now been implemented apart from the matter of Austria. Drigo sarcastically denied the existence of a Croatian coast: Croatia is for him a trans-Alpine, Danubian country - in direct polemics against Ante Pavelić, the current Poglavnik, he emphasized that an independent Croatian Dalmatia could not want at all. In Switzerland the mentioned writing was oriented towards the Alpine middle chain, while Ga- robbio went on considerably. For him, the Catena me- diana delle Alpi ran from the southwestern corner of Liechtenstein via the Klau senpass, the chain of the Bernese Oberland to the Diablerets and from there via the Rhone to the Dent du Kidi. Faşt the whole canton of Rallis and the southern Uri were additionally included, the upper course of the Rhine and the Rhone would be in Italian hands as well as the villages of Chur, St.Moritz, Ilanz, Siöb bnd Martigny. Since the beginning of this war, iat is more likely to report a strengthening than a mitigating of these efforts. In 1942 Vinassa expressly agreed to the extensive interpretation of the term "Alpine middle chain" without, by the way, dropping the old Bunsch to East Tyrol and the Villach area. At the end of November 1942, an article appeared in "Ia Difesa della Razza" which -5 -