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9F -7 - to promote political orientation towards Rome. It is worth noting that the organization "Pro Grigioni Italiano" is developing into an instrument of Italian irredentism despite all the Swiss and Romantic protests. II. Eastern Central Europe. Until the outbreak of this war, the writings generally followed the external political system. For Poland and Hungary there was a strong interest, against Yugoslavia the connections with Bulgaria and the anti-belly Croats were maintained. In relation to Russia a - but very cautious - attention was attested. The focus of the studies was the Östinstitut in Rome, which has the magazine "L'Europa Orientale" at its disposal. The Catholic-Church work ran quite separately, supported by the Papal East Institute. A second Cst Institute in Naples dealt more with questions of the distant East and the Crient, but also touched on Eastern European problems. Since the end of the campaign, both an extraordinary intensification and a fusion of worldly and curatorial aspirations have been remarkable. It is enough to point to the not particularly interested Ix-Stituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale in Milan, which has published a history of the Bulgarians, a presentation of the so-called Aussonpolitik, a treatise on Panslavism, a study on "Mazzini and the Slavs" and a book on Scanderbeg since then. If you look more closely at the whole, very diverse efforts, then there is a threefold impression: 1. The attention paid to the areas connected to the Keich in any form has not decreased, nor has the German position been positively received; a non-German point of view has been sought everywhere - a rather inconspicuous example: in the "Bolletino di Legislazione Scolastica Comparata", which is given to me by Leo Nagnino, a good acquaintance of the school ministry, since l94l, is reported as planned on 'le schulpolitik measures in Bohemia and Kähren, in the Generaigouuvernement and in the Occupied Eastern Territories. A Czech middle school professor reports about Bohemia and Währen, about the general government of a Ukrainian /with the Ukrainians Magnino has special relations/, over the Baltic regions a lady unknown to me, which is not at all German, about Ukraine's Reichskommissariat again a Ukrainian. - 8 -