English Translation

to the Italian people, where not hostile, but at least completely alien, it strives for the possession of the plain of Gorizia, whose eepopulation is not Italian, son-cern is Friulian, and its luxuriance, its rascal around its language cannot be counted as an Italian people. And it is at last striving for the possession of South Tyrol, which has never belonged to Italy, whose population is able to base its economic existence solely on the free movement with the other areas of the Austro-Hungarian Conarchy, which is not restricted by any state borders, and for which the detachment of Cesterreich would mean economic ruin and forcing it to relinquish itself. Mr President-in-Office of the Council. — (DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to begin by thanking the President of the Commission for his excellent report on the situation in South Africa. have convinced us that, just as I am doing, I am making a proper effort to find, for the end of the war, a condition which is appropriate to the fair demands of the peoples involved, and therefore contains the elements of the laziness of peace which we both seek to build upon. He was convinced that we had found this crundlage in similar principles, as he put it in order to secure a just and dignified frieze, Kas still find 155