The Office for Boundary Zones (UZC) was activated at the Presidency of the Council from 1946 to 1967 and dealt with a central view of all matters relating to the complex issues of border areas during the first governments Republicans: in particular Trentino-Alto Adige and Venice Giulia.

In 1946, the President of the Council of Ministers, Alcide De Gasperi, decided to establish the Presidency of the Council of the Bureau for Border Areas. In his direction was Silvio Innocenti, who in 1946 had been prefect of Bolzano. The successors Renato Cajoli, who served the office until his final abolition in 1967. The office dealt with the South Tyrolean issue, the events of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exodus as well as the question of the eastern borders with Yugoslavia.

The Office also drafted numerous drafts to prepare the first status of autonomy of Trentino-Alto Adige to comply with the De Gasperi-Gruber agreement. It also supported the so-called "expenses for supporting Italians" in the province of Bolzano. These were funding in various fields, such as the "bell tower", ie church and orator support to facilitate the aggregation of the Italian community, recently immigrated from various Italian regions. In the 1950's, millions of millionaires arrived in South Tyrol but also in Trentino for the creation of churches and speakers: in Bolzano, for example, the speakers of Regina Pacis, Don Bosco, Oltrisarco, the parish of San Giuseppe ai Piani, the oratory of Salorno, that of Santa Maria Assunta in Merano and the Casa Sociale di Lana benefited from office aid. This also subsidized the maintenance of Italian-style symbols in South Tyrol as the Fascist-era Victory Monument, paying for its restoration in 1948. The office also funded local newspapers: Italians such as South Tyrol, but also German language provided such as the Bozner Zeitung or the weekly Meranese Der Standpunkt. Notemodify wikitesto

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