Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-07-25
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characterize tHem DIS isihS P'of''
ganda.
And in the meantime, active war
preparations are proceeding. New
contingents of troops and war ma
terial are being shipped to Africa
each week. and Prime Minister Benlto
Mussolini keeps on exhOrting his peo-
pie to maintain the glory of Italy on
the battlefields of Africa.
At Adds Ababa, capital OF Abys-
sinia, King Halle Selassie in moving
speech has rallied his nation to de-
fend the sacred soil of the fatherland
against foreign agressors; he de-
scribed Italy's action as the result OF
a craving for revenge for the defeat
which the Abyssinians inflicted upon
the Italian army in 1896, and he
hoped that every person in the coun-
try would stand up and fight unto
death, if necessary. Not yet has the
king issued his mobilization order,
but if there is no let-up in the Italian
war preparations, such decree will
soon be forthcoming.
Partisan Unrest.
"A lOI Vi lIOuUlc Hdu UCCl ChpSStSu
i'm Paris on the French national holt
day, July IA, but. as already reported
here, the authorities were prepared
and nothing happened. A day or two
later, however. the Pierre Laval gov
eminent issued a series of DEGREES in
an effort to eliminate the economic
depression and to bolster the franc,
now wavering upon its, as it seems,
rather unsteady gold foundation.
Among the DEGREES were several
that called for sharp curtailment OF
salaries of government employees, and
as soon as the meaning of the orders
became known and was understood,
a demonstration took place in some
of the main thoroughfares of Paris,
where police and dissatisfied groups
of many a political complexion bat
tied with bare fists, sticks, rocks, or
whatever else seemed within easy
reach. Many were injured, none
killed, and the DEGREES remained I'M
changed.
New Prosecutions.
On the other side of the Rhine a
ulOTe SclIOuS 10 uS'SiSPA'o'
for it looks as though the German
government is once more intensiiying
its opposition to persons who do not
like its policy.
Persecution of the Jewish element
has been revived; windows in restau-
rants and stores belonging to Jews
have been smashed; Jews who have
married non-Jews, have been sent to
concentration camps; official docu-
ments charge the Jews with nearly
all the crimes that are being commit
ted in Germany; dire threats against
Jewish activities in various directions
are being uttered, some of them APP
parently with official sanction, and
there has even been some talk of
segregating Jews in ghetto districts
as in Germany of the Middle Ages.
Clash Feared.
Between the government and the
Protestant churches new strife has
broken out, as many ministers reite-
rate their decision not to become
mere political tools in the service of
party; group of Bible students
were arrested the other day because
they refused to salute in the pre-
scribed Hitherto fashion, maintaining
that God is above Hitler they also,
on grounds of conscience, refused to
serve in the army. The reply to all
this was a characteristic Prussian:
"Heraus :" So they were forthwith
sent off to prison.
Between the papal court at the
Vatican City and the German govern
ment a clash is feared, for it appears
that the pope is about to charge Ger
many with having violated the terms
of the concordat (agreement) of 1888,
guaranteeing to German Catholics
certain civic rights. Just now an
energetic official campaign is being
waged against Catholics who are
charged with taking part in politics.
and the government asserts that
neither Catholic priests nor laymen
must interest themselves in political
affairs-that is. in opposition to the
party in power.
CamOuilage.
There is some reason to believe that
tract the peoples attention from the
deplorable economic conditions pre-
vailing throughout the country. The
attitude taken by Germany in regard
to the ornaments question may, Incl
dentally. have served its purpose, and
there is a suspicion that the new per-
secutions now flaring up are engi-
neered chiefly to make the people for
get that the national debt since Hit
ler's rise to power has increased to
about five billion American dollars.
and that the nation is facing what
outside financial experts describe as
the greatest collapse in its history.
Plan Discarded.
In an attempt to avert just such a
catastrophe in Great Britain former
Prime Minister David Lloyd George
some time ago launched a systematic
propaganda to enlist support for his
own New Deal" scheme. 1t conferred
upon a so-called prosperity loan ISL
250. .000) at per cent interest. to