Bigger Interbellum Austria

So what would be enough for this "transaction" to go forward?

I think that (Fiume or Pola or Zara) and [(a few worthless islands on the illirian coast) or (an italian presence in Valona)] would be accepted in exchange for Bozen.
Mind you, the italians would grumble, since they are expecting to get all them and also Bozen.
And the yugoslavian also would grumble, and the albanians, too
 
Let people vote for Styria...
The thing I wonder is next: in Styria, Austrians wanted to have border on the Draua river at least (if not more south), the same river Yugoslavs wanted to have border in Carinthia.
Why didn't they kill two birds with one stone and let the whole river be the border??
 
Let people vote for Styria...
The thing I wonder is next: in Styria, Austrians wanted to have border on the Draua river at least (if not more south), the same river Yugoslavs wanted to have border in Carinthia.
Why didn't they kill two birds with one stone and let the whole river be the border??

Maybe it is because further upstream the Drau/Drava in Carinthia the area is much more mountainous than further downstrean in Styria...
 
I think that (Fiume or Pola or Zara) and [(a few worthless islands on the illirian coast)

So OTL gains exchanged for something else gained IOTL?

Mind you, the italians would grumble, since they are expecting to get all them and also Bozen.
And the yugoslavs also would grumble, and the albanians, too.

The only people who wouldnt grumble are the Austrians.:p
 
It does not matter for whom Styrians vote, they could just have voting...
I am sure it would butterfly some things away.
But then again, Voralbergers vote for Switzerland and no one recognized that.
 
It does not matter for whom Styrians vote, they could just have voting...
I am sure it would butterfly some things away.
But then again, Voralbergers vote for Switzerland and no one recognized that.

You might want to re-write this, cause like this your post makes absolutely no sense.
 
realpolitik

the problems with plebiscites is that they give an apparence of legitimity, but have no real power.
the real power base of any settlement depends on who is actually holding the gun.
thus plebiscite will be allowed only in those areas where the results will be aligned with expectations of the winning powers.
Thus let's revert the problem:
which one of the winning powers could sponsor the idea of a bigger austria?
 
I think Tyrol is the least likely as Italy wanted more than it got. I think this whole TL would depend on the Triumph of Wilsonian ideals of self determination and peace without victory. Of course that is difficult since Wilson did not concern himself with peace treaty with Austria. If this diid come to pass it would certianly rewrite the 1938 year in review.
 
Wilson ideals

Please! Wilson ideals were just a sweet a bedtime tale for the press to say how fair and just war winners were.
When they did not agree with winners' interests, they simply were not applied (such as Bozen OTL).

Heck, most of Hitler's claims were done according to Wilson principles!
 
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