Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-08-06
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little incidents illustrating the sin
cerity of the new friendship between
Rome and Berlin, and now rather
significant one has been added.
At the time when plans were made
for conference to discuss anew the
Locarno treaties, France insisted that
Germany must not be invited to par
ticipate since it was the Hitler gov
eminent that had nullified the Lo-
carno pacts of 1926 by sending troops
to the demilitarized Rhineland. But
Italy demanded that Germany be in
vited, and-after some talking back
and forth, Germany was actually in
vited; it now has accepted, too. Then,
in return for that favor, Germany did
something that has caused consider
able sensation, for in Berlin 1t was
announced a few days ago that the
German legation in Adds Ababa had
been abolished.
Recognition.
That meant, in effect. that Ger
many had tacitly recognized the Ital-
ian conquest of Ethiopia. 1t had not
offered recognition in precise or Of
fetal words, but by an action. And
some of the other great powers be-
came enraged, for-they claimed
they had not, and they would not,
recognize the right of Italy to rule
the former African empire.
The simple facts of the matter are,
however, that long before Germany
withdrew it's legation from Adds
Ababa, the members of the League OF
Nations had already-and just as in
directly-recognized the Italian con-
quest. The lifting of the League
sanctions could by no stretch of i'm
agination be interpreted in any other
way. Now Germany has simply acted
consistently-and its arOusing wrath
where all the other powers patted
their own backs for doing the very
same thing that Germany did-in a
but slightly different form.
The point of the tale is not the fact
of recognizing the Italian conquest,
but it lies in the very interesting cir
cumstance that Germany and Italy
are becoming increasingly intimate.
And, this latest affair lends color to
the surmise that some day ere long
the old Triple Alliance-between Ger
many, Italy and Austria-will be re-
surrected in order to offset the un-
even balance created when France
and Russia a few months ago entered
into military alliance.
British Move.
Great Britain, habitually viewing
with alarm" any diplomatic manoeuv-
ering for position on the continent,
did something the other day, too: 1t
announced that it was terminating its
mutual-assistance pledges in the
Mediterranean; these pledges were
made to assure Greece, Jugo-Slavia
and Turkey of military aid if Italy
should take aggressive action against
them, and, on the other hand, these
nations were to rush to the aid of
Great Britain in case of an Italian
attack on the British fleet in the
Mediterranean.
Italy always protested furiously
against these pledges, and used their
existence as reason for its unwill-
ingness to take part in the contem-
plated new Locarno conference And
Italian diplomacy. scored another
victory, for Great Britain gave up, and
Italy is willing to discuss Locarno on
it's own terms.
Plainly, the intent of the British
was to remove the last vestiges of ami
mostly toward Italy and to preclude
the possibility of German-Italian
| alliance. Apparently, thought italy
7, has decided that the friendship with
Germany is to develop into an alli-
ance, there does not seem much that
Great Britain can do about it, for
during the last few months British
diplomacy has been humiliatingly de-