Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-10-05
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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Such, and many Otner, d1fncultleS
persist in spite of the fact that Prem
Ter Mowinckel Of Norway, in an ad-
dress before the assembly, very earn
estly pointed out that Europe really
is on the brink of war, and that the
danger can be averted only if the
powers will agree to disarm.
Another warning note was sounded
by Seane O'Kelly of the Irish Free
State who blamed the great powers
for the failure of all attempts to dis
arm.
Second in importance to the Ger
man attitude is that of France; Paris
has always maintained that if armies
and navies are to be reduced and
limited, security must be brought
about in some other way-and here
it is natural for France to think
chiefly of alliances with other pow
ers. French insistence on this point
has been heightened since Hitler was
appointed German chancellor.
MacDOnald's Warning.
Now it is reported that the British
Prime Minister ]. Ramsay Mac Don
aid has warned the French govern
ment to abandon this insistence on
security; he makes it clear that Great
Britain may be willing to enter into
a consultative pact with France, but
that it will not become a French ally.
And Macdonald was pointed in his
statement, for he said that if France
persists in asking for such security
as may result from alliances, it would
be conceivable that the French ma
tion might lose the friendship of
Great Britain. According to several
rumors, Italy has given France SINH
lar hints.
Early in the week a definite state
ment concerning further German poll
cies was awaited at Geneva, for For
eign Minister Konstantin Won Neurath
and Hitler's right-hand man, Joseph
Goebbels, had gone to Berlin for a
conference with the chancellor. Of
ficially, Germany is on record in favor
of peace and disarmament, but still
feels that no European nation should
be more heavily armed than is Ger
many itself. At the moment of this
writing there is no very strong prob
ability that this viewpoint will be
altered.
Trade War.
Improvement of Franco-German re-
lations has been hindered by the fact
that trade war is going on between
the two countries, and Paris is SER
iously considering denouncing the
trade treaty of 1927 on the ground
that French industrialists claim that
France is getting much the worst OF
the bargain; request will be made
for a conference concerning readjust-
ment of the treaty, and it is plainly
indicated that if Germany refuses to
take up negotiations, France may con-
slider itself released from the obliga-
tions of the treaty.
Leipzig Case.
A sensation was sprung at the SUI
preme court trial at Leipzig the other
day when Marinus van der Luebbe,
Dutch although no long
err recognized as such by the party
confessed that he had set fire to the
building of the German parliament
on February 81. On second thought
it wasn't as much of a sensation as
at first believed, because there have
been many intimations that the con-
fession would be forthcoming under
pressure of the MISUNDERSTANDING
party and the government. Widely
published in many countries have
been reports to the effect that the
nazists themselves had instigated the
fire, and had made the Dutchman a
willing tool in their hand. Such
charges were renewed a few days age
when a New York house published
the American edition of the Brown
Book of Hitler Terrors," the truth OF
whose accusations is vouched for by
men of high repute and international
standing.
Cuban Situation.
Believing that he has the turbulent
situation we'll in hand, DR.. Grau San
Martin, newest president of the Cuban
republic, has sent one of his cabinet
ministers to Washington to ask fol
American recognition of his regime
Bloody demonstrations broke out ir
Havana the other day when six per
sons were killed, and again on Mon
day of this week the streets of the
capital were the scene of sanguinarJ
fighting, for government soldiers at.
tackled the Hotel Nacional where
about five hundred army officers, op