English Translation

-5 - the allegations of demands should be backed up racially. And in the summer of the previous year, the "Dittelstelle für Alpenforschung" Milan, an institution of the GUF, was recognized and expanded by the fascist party leadership, if one sees through the rather large-scale writing / books, critic in magazines and newspapers/, then one has come up with a great versatility of argumentation. Four layers can be distinguished: 1. Geopolitical reasons. They are formulated in the broad interpretation in connection with the term "Alpine Middle Chain". 2. Historical reasons. Most of the time they are based on Drusus, who enjoys great love at all and became column saints of numerous streets, gates, barracks, Brdcken etc. in Sudtirol. In the end, it is always about the assertion that the Latin heritage lives everywhere under the cover, e.g. also in the Vorarlberg neighbouring Swiss-German Prättigau. If the Latin culture is not used, then the name of the place and the land name so plagued throughout Europe will be used to close to the original Ligurian population; with the help of the Ligurian myth, which the Italians have created as a reserve for the hindsight, these areas will also have a relationship with Rome. 3. Economic reasons. The Corriere della Sera of 9.3.43 shows that the Milan-Cremona Canal is the first to be launched. A consortium for the Milan–Lago Maggiore Canal already exists, it cooperates with the Locarno-Venice Community, which is active in Switzerland. The final goal is to divert the Swiss transport from Rotterdam and Hanburg to Venice, which is to be expanded to a leading transshipment station with the help of the Upper Italian canals. It is clear, of course, in the Italian diversity, that the economic arguments in so-called "Italian Switzerland", especially in Graubünden, are only partially effective, after all, the canal plans show an impressive gesture of cooperation. 4. at last, the ethnographic argument is not of central importance. While the inter-netional Romance literature in the alpine Romanic languages sees self-continuous languages of very old development stage - the -9 -