Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-04-13
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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which may, or may not, meet in Lon
don about the middle of June.
DISTINCTIONS.
There are distractions which must
be cleared away, and President Roose-
welt apparently is conscious OF this,
for he has permitted the intimatlon
to be broadcast that an attempt is to
be made to scale down some of the
dizzyingly high tariff walls which
for several years have been a most
serious hindrance to the normal de-
velopment of International trade.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull has
even been courageous enough to
state-not without sanction of his
chief, it must be assumed-that the
high American protective tariff is
principal cause of the world crisis.
So that's to be discussed.
Macdonald appears to feel that
while there must be some sort of pre-
! liminary agreement concerning low
er tariff schedules, it is equally i'm
a
the ever pending war-debts problem;
| he also believes that international
disarmament is one of the subjects
that necessitate conference before the
London world meeting is cOnvoked.
! Apparently, then, the Washington
conversations will serve as a curtain
raiser to the greater drama which
will be presented to the world audi
ence when, and if, the London con-
ference opens.
While optimistic predictions con-
corning the London meeting should
be taken with a grain of salt. it does
seem as though there is some tang
ible, some quite concrete material to
work with, and it may be that this
conference will really accomplish
something worthwhile, something
binding and enduring. 1t will, to a
certain extent, depend upon the spirit
and the outcome of the Washington
conversations.
German Unrest.
Norman H. Davis, President Roose-
velt's extraordinary ambassador-at-
large to Europe, has spent the last
ten days sounding out currents OF
opinion in London and, Paris; when
last heard from he was in Berlin con-
ferring with Chancellor Adolf Hitler
and as a result of his negotiations il
is expected that Germany, too, will
take an important part in the inter-
national discussions now impending.
At least, it is hoped that Hitler will
reserve some of his strength for these
tasks, and, for a while, forget the
turbulence which he and his govern
ment have created in Germany. He
did not carry out his threatened Sec
ond plan of boycotting against Ger.
man Jews, mainly, it is reported, be-
cause President Paul Won Hindenburs
would not tolerate it. But the gov
eminent, in other ways, continues tC
barass and prosecute the Jews, de.
priving them of some Of their civic
rights, discharging them from fed
eral and state offices, abolishing the
Old Testament because lit is nothing
but a collection of Jewish narratives,
and so on. At the same time Hitler
has bestowed upon himself the au
thority to replace all chief eXecu
tives of the German states with Ma
} tional Socialists of his own choosing
Slcsvig Ahnaced.
Many reports indicate that Danisf
sovereignty in North Slesvig is bein.
|, seriously menaced by the new feel
ing of natiOnalism surging in thu
breasts of the NaZist Germans, and {
good many very provocative German
statements challenging the Danisl
, claims to "Sonderjylland' have beer
made On 1920, plebiscites. arranged
, in accordance with the Versatile
peace treaty, resulted in an over
whelming majority of persons in tn
, district concerned voting for politica
, reunion with Denmark.)
Denmark and Norway.
While there are wars and rumor
about wars, two Scandinavian coun
tries have once more pointed the wa.
to peaceful settlement of bitter griev
, ances: Denmark and Norway wer
unable to agree about the sovereignt
over Greenland and finally went t
the International arbitration court a
The Hague with their mutual com
plants. Last week the court, afte
! sitting evidence that had been pre-
scented by spokesman for both ma
T tions, decided. by a vote of IL to
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