Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-08-01
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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connection with the League Council
meeting scheduled to open yesterday
Abyssinia insists that further concili-
alton attempts must be preceded by a
study of the Ualual position, and
Italy makes it clear that any nego-
tiations predicated on the theory that
Ualual is not in Italian territory will
or may-mean that the Italian gov
eminent will retire from the League.
So, it certainly is too early to grow
optimistic about the results of some
future Cancellation efforts for which
the way is to be paved at the League
council meeting now.
War Preparations.
While diplomats employ the smooth
weapons of modern statecraft, active
war preparations go on. Italian leg
ions are being drilled for African
service and shipped across the blue
Mediterranean to a region and a eli
mate with which they are unfamiliar,
and to which they are entirely I'M
accustomed; Prime Minister Benito
Mussolini keeps on exhOrting his SOL
diers to die for great and sacred
cause-while his minister in Abys-
sinia openly insults the king of that
country by ignoring an invitation to
appear at a reception in honor of His
Majesty's birthday-and while a hun
dred thousand Romans among the
ruins of departed glory shout: I'VE
want war! We want Abyssinia!''
One slight move on the part of an
outside power was made during the
last few days; several nations have
announced that they will not export
arms and ammunition to Abyssinia,
but. since Italy has plenty of war ma
terial, they did not include that coun-
try in their embargo proclamations.
But Great Britain did decree that all
expectation of arms and ammunition
to both of the, probably soon bel
ligerent, countries from British ports
would have to be stopped, and the
London government indicated lean
ing in favor of the smaller of the two
nations now preparing to fight, by
deciding that war-material consign-
ments from other countries (than
Great Britain might pass unhindered
through British-African territory.
significantly-in London it
is again being limited that the British
government, if worst comes to worst,
may close the Suez Canal to Italian
troops. OF course, that is as yet no
decision, but it is being considered
at the possible cost of Italian friend
ship.
Getting Worse.
Many accounts agree that the stu
alton arising from the renewed perse-
cution of Jews and Catholics in Ger
many is becoming steadily worse.
Just now an interesting and some
what disturbing angle is seen in the
picture, from this side of the At
lantic.
In Washington United States Sen
ator King of Utah, presented mo-
ton calling for the rupture of diplo-
matte relations between America and
Germany as protest against the per-
secutiOns in progress in "Hitlerland".
1t failed to arouse enthusiasm. Then
Mr.. King insisted that the Senate
appoint committee to investigate
the problem of these prosecutions.
Since the jurisdiction of the law
makers of the United States does not
extend to Germany or any other for
eign countries, that, too, fell flat.
New York Action.
In the meantime, a German citizen,
under certain stipulatiOns of the Ger
commerce treaty of
1925, had applied in New York for
a license to open a massage clinic. 1t
was denied him by Mayor LaGuardia
on the ground that the German gov
eminent had been unfair to American
citizens. In Berlin the mayors &C
ton was met with loud derision, and
was, indeed. open to criticism since
1t is not up to any individual Amer
lean city mayor to regulate relations
or interpret treaties between nations;
foreign ministries and national legis-
lative bodies retain that authority.
If any controversy might be said to
exist, it clearly was one between the
federal government of the United
States and the government of Ger
many-not dispute between one La
and one Adolf Hitler. And