ALSACE AND AUTONOMY.
RENEWAL OF AGITATION. The Alsatian autonomists, whose leader is M. Ricklin, head of the “Heimatbund,” have given signs of hew activity’. Their manifesto of a few months ago demanding autonomy for Alsace within the borders of France has since been followed by the distribution among the population •of thousands of pamphlets in the same sense, while the Municipal Council of ‘ Selestat has suddenly decided to suppress the names of streets called after eminent Frenchmen in commemmoration of the liberation of Alsace, and to give them German names. Taken quite unexpectedly, this decision is arousing loud protests from the patriotic societies. The autonomist movement appears to be largely the result of skilful utilisation by an-ti-French elements of a certain irritation among a section of the population arising out of the application of adminisbtrative methods that have not always shown full understanding for the character of the liberated provinces. .
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Shannon News, 5 October 1926, Page 4
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150ALSACE AND AUTONOMY. Shannon News, 5 October 1926, Page 4
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