Show SLAYS SLAVS VICTIM I OF GEOGRAPHY Laibach Controversy Up p to tc Allied cl ss oll for Sett Washinton April 26 Appointment 96 6 of oC an nn commission slon with an ar recent recent ref re- re American member to In I f cen cent t Incidents bet between Italians n s a and Slavs Jugo in Laibach elicits from the tho the following fol fol- society National Geographic lowing bulletin concerning that historic historic historic his his- elt city Besieged a at t various times Umes by Hun Turk and Magyar for or It lIe lies In to the tho of conquests and o natural pathway path earthquake In lS 1St 1805 devastated d by hr an sin L-albach L hL- hL her he for tor centuries been a vic Ic victim victim vic vic- Sit Sil Situated Situated tim Um of Its geographical po position I more than 00 OO miles southwest southwest south south- west cost o of Vienna on the banks hanks of or the i I j I river the city I Is In the midst of or a valley alley which offered a gateway i for fot military operations either cither from fromI j I tho the Italian or Balkan peninsulas to toI I I Ithe the territory of or what until recently and was western Hungary Austro-Hungary I southern Germany In the tho early nineteenth century I attained the cre st t of o its Importance Imas importance Im im- i as capital of or that variable region colonized h by Greeks ruled rule b by Roman Immortalized by hy I Shakespeare In Twelfth Night and restored to a political entity as the th result of Napoleons Napoleon's Italian Hallan operations opera opera- Nearly a 1 century ago asro in 1821 it I entertained tho the congress of oC when the only two constitutional governments governments governments gov gov- I of or that day Great Britain and France made Europe sato safe for fOI embryo embro democracy lC by 11 declining to join Prussia Russia 1 and f Austria in helping i restore King Icing Ferdinand to his Neapolitan itan throne thron from which he hUd been rem removed td b by a a l' l revolution involution I I That congress was atten attended c by C UtH who helped scramble scramble scram scram- national frying i ble LIe Poland Polan In three 1 pans and had ha a n premature vision of or ofa ofa a L league Juo of or nations which he called II III a universal ersal union But nut his name tolay to to- to I lay diy I is associated chien chiefly with a a. pudding pudding pud pud- I I ding seemingly ly an earlier token loleen of or I I fame mc which was supplanted by the J j cent 10 cigar eltar In entering the new kingdom of oC II the Serbs Croats and ens Laibach Lai- Lai I bash bach has come Into its own Tho The ThoI I II city has been Men tho the tho center o of the I movement and the tho seat scat of or orI J I the Slovenian Ian diet Under Austria Austria- Hungary I found itself politically politically I I I can cally oppressed b by the Magyars from fromI whom It hall hail suffered physically In JOO OO j I The Chateau of oC TIvolI one o of Laibach's Laibach's Lai- Lai bachs bach's show places was tho the residence lor of Marshal k military Clem Clem- of or Austria who emerged tom from retirement when TO iO years Jears old to train trainan nn an arm army When hen he was 53 he personally personally per per- maneuvered mancu his forces in the Italian wars through a series of oC masterly mas mas- masterly terly retreats to await reinforcements reinforcements reinforce reinforce- ments w with ith which he launched launch d an aggressive i e campaign that culminated of oC Novara I in the celebrated victory victor ovara Most of or the city's monuments I commemorate Slovenes Io Memorial Memorial- em i i 1101 l J. J bronze in-bronze in bronze arc Yon Von Yal asor historian his his- historian torian the Slovene cne Chaucer and Pi whose verse verge Is considered considered considered consid consid- ered better than that of oC his hib sor Under the dual dun 1 empire had Ji u population not lar larger er than Au Au- usta u ta Ga ant and was the capital of or orthe the duchy o of From the hill hili which dominates tho the old town on tho the rl right ht bank of the river the Steiner Alps arc are visible to the north Cn n this hill is the ea castle Uc of or former governors o of oC the province jl j I l Jal aeh's industry before the war co on r. l mainly of oC the manufacture or of f brick brick oil pottery potter cloths paper and n nd fire lire hose hos I |