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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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ton of disarmament can be solved on
ly by a great-pOwer conference, the
assistant foreign minister's journey
has not materially contributed any
thing toward a solution of the prob
lens now uppermost in the minds of
European peoples.
Austrian Situation.
To aggravate the European situation
Austria still-probably more so than
ever-fears German plans of anneXa-
ton. Germany is net doing anything
that can be interpreted as hint of
actual invasion, preferring the subtler
methods of peaceful and persuasive
propaganda, but the belief spreads
that in view of the growing pro-cOn-
solidation sentiment in Austria itself
the day is not far distant when union
will have been consummated, no mat
ter what the Versailles peace treaty
or the Entente states say about it.
Internally, Austrian conditions seem
to have improved somewhat since the
brief and violent civil war couple
of weeks ago, but the political fight
apparently is as bitter as always.
How nervous Austrians are became
evident a few days ago when rumor
flew all over the country that the
Vienna government was modifying
troops at the border line i'm order to
stave off a fancied German attack.
The episode, upon closer analysis, was
nothing more important than that "a
German nazist who had tried to cross
the border without the requisite iden-
LITIGATION papers in his possession, was
wounded by a sentinel. That was all,
but it certainly gave Austrians a few
very excited hours.
New King.
Upon the day following funeral cere-
monies for Albert, king of the Bel
gians, his oldest son was installed as
| his successor under the name of Leo
pold the third There was no corona
tion ceremony, Belgium having dis
pensed with that as obsolete; before
both chambers of parliament the
young king merely pledged himself to
obey the constitution of his country,
to maintain its independence and ter
ritorial integrity. There was some
display of ''pomp and circumstance"
| i'm the streets, but, aside from that,
the installation ceremony was sim
plicity itself, far less elaborate than
the Inauguration of president of the
| United States.
SANDING Murdered.
A few years ago General Augusta
SANDING, head of an unofficial army,
protested most vigorously against
United States Intervention in Mica
ragua where marines had been sta
toned ito protect American citizens
and their interests" SANDING main
tanned that the marines were in his
country for the chief purpose of col
Letting money for some of the big
New York banks and considered it
humiliating that his country should
be, as he and others saw it, invaded
AS the Americans slowly withdrew
SANDING became pacified, and made
peace with the present Nicaraguan
government, but was unable to become
II w luC lNdllOIld1 the
country's army, which he considered
unconstitutional.
The other day members of this ar
my shot to death SANDING, his brother
and four other men; they thus accom-
plished what United States marines
had tried-in vain-to accomplish for
years.
SANDING was described in the Amer
lean daily press as a rebel, bandit
robber and a murderer, and even
the then president of the United
States, Herbert Hoover, publicly sti2-
matized him as such. There seem to
be ample grounds, however, for re-
wishing that judgment, for it is now
pretty generally admitted that San
dino was guided by patriotic ideal
ism, by a thirst for national liberty
as intense as was that of, for in
stance, George Washington, also
branded by his enemies a rebel, a
bandit and a murderer. In Nicara-
gua's history he is likely to figure as
a real national hero; his memory to
be respected and Loved as such.