Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-09-01
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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very uneven distribution of gold re-
serves have hindered the recovery
from the present crisis.
People in the United States may
have-more or less justifiably-an i'm
preston that the economic crisis has
passed it's climax. No such impress
sion seems to prevail in Europe at
this moment.
German Uncertainty.
Matters are further complicated be-
cause of the political and economic
uncertainty which exists in Germany.
Tuesday of this week the new parlia-
ment met for the first time, and it
may take steps of the greatest i'm
portance to Germany and the rest of
the world since it's debates necessarily
typify the everlasting conflict between
extreme reaction and extreme radi-
calism.
One would like to think that there
is possibility of returning to the
moderate policy-equally far from re-
action and from radicalism which the
late Chancellor Heinrich Bruening
prudently followed, and which finally
led to his own elimination from the
political picture.
So far, the reactiOnary elements
have been checked in their feverish
attempts to gain the upper hand, for
Chancellor Franz Won Papen, himself
of nj ~ 10 old t., 49,,
type, at the city of Muenster delivered
speech in which he made it abso-
lutely clear that Adolf Hitler, leader
of the National Socialists, will not
be permitted to enter the government:
that no coalition government, repre-
senting the major parties, is contem-
plated, and that further efforts to
stir up unrest in Germany will meet
with firm, if necessary with bloody,
resistance.
But-between the reactionary poll
cles of Won Papen and those of a
fascist like Hitler there is really not
much difference!
POtempa Incident.
In the Upper Silesian town of Po-
tempa five National Socialists short
time ago killed a Communist, for no
particular reason whatsoever-merely
IL seems, on general principles. As
result the murderers were SEN
fenced to death in accordance with
President Paul Won Hindenburs's
emergency decree, and ever since then
there has been a great deal of new
trouble. Hitler himself has been FUN
ing against the "decapitation govern
ment''-and then disappeared. His
foes say that he has suffered a nerv-
Gus collapse following that verbal
eruption, but his friends insist he is
merely taking rest cure somewhere
in the mountains. He may have re-
turned to the scene of action ere these
lines are being read.
No Union.
In the Versailles peace treaty it was
made clear that no political union
between Germany and Austria must
be consummated. In spite of this
ipulation-perhaps because Of it
much agitation in favor of the union
-"Anschluss" they call it over there
has been going on, and last year
it took the definite form of proposal
to form a customs treaty between the
two German speaking nations. The
victorious world-war powers became
frightened, appealed to the Interna-
tional court at the Hague, and were
gratified to be told by that august
body that such a pact would be il
legal. 1t has been charged that the
verdict was prompted by purely poll
tical motives, but whatever there may
be to say about that-it stands.
Last week Austria received a cash
loan from France, approved in ad-
vance by the Lausanne conference
and, to certain extent, by the League
of Nations, but had, to subscribe to