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attitude recently has been quite ada
mant and right now there is but little
prospect of a change.
And Paris cables that Herriot came
home, detected because Germany
proved SO 'unreasonably obstinate"
More Worry.
Altogether, Germany shows dis
Quieting signs of Independence; her
chancellor, Franz Won Papen, the 9TH
err day audaciously announced to a
surprised world that if his country is
to pay back money it has borrowed
from foreign powers, those powers
must remove the tariff frontiers
which now makes it we'll night impOs-
sible for Germany to sell her products
abroad. When Germany cannot sell,
she has no money with which to pay
debts, the chancellor said. Perhaps
it was little hint to the high-tariff
men now in charge of the Republican
presidential election campaign in the
United States! Anyhow, Washington
squirmed at the suggestion
MussOlini Decade.
For the time being, Franz Won
Papen manages to get along in Ger
many without even a semblance of
democratic government. No, the idea
did not originate with hint eman-
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Mussolini, dictator and manifold mini
ster of Italy. And the other day
Mussolini could view with much sat-
isfaction ten years of organized fas-
cism within the borders of his country.
Thousands of his followers celebrated
the anniversary in grand style, and
Mussolini delivered speech in which
he reasserted that u am your chief,
and am always ready to assume full
responsibility"
During the ten years he has sue
ceeded in demonstrating the fact that
good many reforms may be carried
through by rule of the iron hand
but at the cost of political and per-
sonal liberty on scale never hither-
to seen in any other modern country.
POrtentOuS Events.
While Europe and America become
restless at the thought of the possible
ramifications of German claims and
of the seeming permanence of robust
dictatorship in Rome, things are de-
veloping in Asia where Manchurian
Chinese are trying their best to dis
lodge the Japanese. Their cause is
plain. They protest against a for
eign invader who sets up a new
state" (Manchukuo) in Chinese ter
ritory, whereupon the Japanese stig-
Matte the rebels as bandits "-and
treat them accordingly. Fights are
going on every day, and stories sent
out from Mukden indicate that the
struggle for independence is in its
merely preliminary stages.
Dispatches from Peiping and Nam
king make it clear that the patience
of the Chinese central government is
about to become exhausted, and that
it is not likely that a major clash
between the two Asiatic powers can
be averted. Tokyo keeps on repeat
ing the tedious maxim that Japan is
merely protecting her interests" and
the League of Nations is "waiting''-
as it has been doing for the last year.
Election Days.
Moving across the globe to other
chimes: Germany faces a parliament
tary election on November 6, and the
prospects are that Adolf Hitler and
his national socialistic party-or
movement" as he prefers to call it
will not repeat the triumphs they
registered in other elections earlier
in the year. On November 8, the
American people will elect a presi-
dent-most like, according to present
trends, elect rather than re-elect.
On November 4, the people of Nicara-
qua elect a president, once more
under the direct and personal super
vision of United States marines the
last 700 of whom will be returned
to America in February, according to
word from Managua.
1t is still deep puzzle to a good
many Americans what business U. S.
marines have in a foreign country
with which the United States is at
peace.
A Restless Continent.
Disturbing news continues coming
from South America where, it seems,
perennial warfare is going on.
Quayaquil reports that a detach-
ment of troops has been sent to re-
inforce the Ecuadorean garrison on
the southern frontier as the result
of a skirmish with Peruvian patrols
near Huaquillas few days ago.
And in Lima a great deal of ner-