Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-30
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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to draw up and carry out all decisions
concerning the national budget and
he also is authorized to make loans
abroad. There is just one limita-
ton to his power, and that a rather
theoretical one: The president may,
if he considers it necessary, demand
the resignation of Hitler and his
cabinet.
In Background.
There is not much danger that the
president, will use this prerogatlve,
for old Paul Won Hindenburg has re-
coded pitifully into the shadows of the
background, and it is-because of his
age-doubtful that he will ever again
emerge. Hitler has succeeded in COM
pletly eclipsing the Influence OF the
venerable executive. now so effective
" narrowed that even his signature
is not NEEDED in order to carry out GER
tain important plans.
In many countries there has been
violent reaction to the stories OF
government persecution of Jews, com
ing from Germany in an almost end
less stream.
Official denials did not carry any
weight-they rarely debut it ap-
pears that official reports to the
United States government, compiled
by the American ambassador and con-
suls i'm Germany. have served to bring
out the fact that such prosecutions
actually did take place, but that they
have now subsidized. So far as it can
be ascertained here, the rumors OF
cruelty to Jews were not without
foundation in fact. but some of them
may have undergone prejudiced en-
aggeration. If that is the case, the
German government can blame it
self, for by its press censorship it
has made it very difficult to obtain
demonstrated facts.
Public press censorship is always
a dangerous experiment, for where
it wants to kill unpleasant facts, it
creates, in indirect ways, still more
unpleasant rumors.
Sidelights.
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many, Italy, Jugoslavia, Greece, Pc
land and good many other coun-
tries-a fact which prompts the
question whether such thing as in
telligent democracy is possible at the
present stage of popular education in
most countries. Apparently it is not.
for if it we're, it would have been
victorious and not succumbed to the
will of few iron-fisted individuals.
But it is interesting to consider the
fact that while the system of democ-
racy within recent years has proved
a failure i'm various lands, some of
the rulers of great nations have come
from the very depths, that is, socially
seen.
Obscure Beginnings.
In Russia the early career of Die
tator Joseph Stain was an extremely
modest one, although it's details are
not generally known. In Great Bri-
tain, Prime Minister Macdonald, who,
while not dictator, is the mightiest
man of the empire, began his boy
hood life as a mine worker. In Italy,
Mussolini got his start at village
blacksmith's anvil, and in Germany,
Chancellor Hitler traces his humble
origin to days when he was a per-
fectly unknown house painter-not in
Germany, but in adjacent Austria.
In the hands of these four men who
have surged upward from obscure
beginnings, rests-to a large extent
the fate of the world today
Ayerts Conference Closing.
To go back to the beginning of this
survey: The world quite evidently
has not been made safe for democ-
racy, no matter how many millions
of human lives were sacrificed for the
sake of this exalted ideal.
Nor has the war of 1914-191S
"ended all wars To the contrary,
it has demonstrated in a most trag-
ical way the utter futility of wars.
War is going. on between Japan and
China, between Paraguay and Bolivia,
and-more or less sanguinary-be-
tween Peru and Colombia at a time
when the international disarmament
conference keeps on sitting in Geneva.
In vain had plan after plan been
examined by the cOnference-which
began more than year ago-and it
now became apparent that further at
tempts would be as devoid of positive
results as had been all the previous
efforts.
A motion to adjourn the conference