Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-09-06
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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(COnClnueQ from rage -
coming general meeting. Preliminary
conferences and correspondence dis
close the fact that whatever hostility
may still exist will remain inarticu-
Late at Geneva, and in all likelihood
Russia will be invited to not only join
the League but also to become a per-
manent member of its council.
Shrewd Vancouver.
Back of all this is a good deal Of
Shrewd manoevering; LitvinOv early
this year made it clear that Franco
Russian alliance would produce a more
efficacious guaranty of European peace
than anything else. He figured that
this could be best brought about
through a series of mutual alliance
treaties, supplementing the Locarno
and the Briand-KellOgg treaties; then
Great Britain and Italy began to
worry, fortnight it not, cOnceivably,
be that too close intimacy between
Russia and France would jeopardize
British and Italian interests?
Besides, it would be useful to have
Germany become a League member
once more; feeling that French in
fluence might be lessened and that
Germany might reconsider her deci-
sion to quit if Russia became a
League member, London and Rome
seconded the French plan to invite
Russia to Geneva.
Tho fbacici fhof Eropoh In
probably would weaken, with Russia
as League member, finds support in
many capitals. but not in Paris where
it is felt that Russia's joining means
a step in the direction of that inter-
nationally guaranteed national Sc
curity" which France has been so
loudly demanding during the last
couple of years.
NOn.Payment.
Suspension of Germany's private
debt payment which began as a six
month moratorium, is, it seems, now
to be extened indefinitely, for Mill
lister of Economics Hjalmar Schacht,
dictator of German finance, has indi-
Gated that it will be years yet before
payment of installments and interest
can be resumed.
He once more blames Germany's
creditors, and does not even try to
find any responsibility for the crisis
in German government itself, as Or
ganized and managed. by Adolf Hitler.
Creditor nations will protest if such
an indefinite moratorium really is
proclaimed-bu that will be about all
they can do, too. If they attempt
retaliation, for instance, by way of
trade embargos, they will inflict as
serious hurts upon themselves as
upon Germany.
Starting day before yesterday an
other Nazist mass meeting is in prog
ress at Nuremberg where between
100000 and 100000 Hitler enthusiasts
will be shouting themselves hoarse
with Hell Hitler!" until next Mon
day. The leader himself has prom
ised to address the colossal gathering
seven times and will, probably, dis
cuss some of the problems of the day
the inability to pay, among them.
He will then hear his words wildly
applauded and will be able to go be-
fore the world once more to proclaim:
"There you see-the people are back
of me!'
MussOlinf's Hand.
For the time being Germany seems
to have forgotten all about her Au-
strian ambitions; the disastrous Nazi
coup in Vienna apparently cooled all
German ardor for attempts to merge
politically the two German-speaking
nations.
AS readers of these surveys will
know, Mussolini acted quickly and
adroitly to prevent German intrigues,
for on the day when Chancellor En-
colbert Dollfuss was assassinated, he
sent $4,000 Italian soldiers to the
Austro-Italian border. Now, a former
Austrian vice chancellor, Franz Wink
Ter. publicly charges that Mussolini
is just as keenly interested in Austria
as is Hitler himself; boldly Winkler
claims that Austria is completely in
the hands of the Italian dictator, and
that Dollfuss had become his willing
slave. Furthermore, according to
Winkler, Mussolini has paid about
one million dollars to the present vice
chancellor, Prince Ernst Ruediger
Won Starhemberg. in order to make
sure that he continues his efforts to
''Italianize" Austria.
Semi-official statements in Rome
are to the effect that Winkler is a
liar, but the Mussolini government it
self has not spoken, one way or the
other, so it is impossible to determine
what is truth, and what is not, in this
case.