The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-08-14
Tense Days in Europe
Cincinnati Enquirer)

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 Three arpanes identified circumstantially4 part of Italys ar-mobing fleet are driven down in gale on the coast of French Morocco Investigation on the part of French offiSalSs discovers machine guns ammunition, and Italian military papers aboard the planes Their destination is Spanish Morocco. Members of the Spanish military Right Front, cen tered in Morocco need munitions to send to the rebel attack on Madrid. Italy is suspected of sending SUD- plies to aid the Fascist campaign against Spanish loyalists report is circulated that the uneasy Left Wing of the French Government may see fit to supply to Spanish Leftists The British fleet in Span iSh waters is reenforced by warships sent from Malta German and Portuguese batteships skim the coast of Spain. The number may be increased. potential crisis is foreseen which may blow the top off the European powder keg.
 In Washington, officials of the State Department look with anxiety this turn of events While prac tically every European country expresses sympathy for the two Spanish factions the United States tents itself with assisting nationals in their evacuation from Madrid holding battleshps in readiness to re- ceive them at Valencia. Certain American cial interests may potential profits to be gained from this state of affairs but to the average Ameri can the European crisis is far-dstant drama in true photoplay fashion on an almost unfamiliar stage.
 The situation is it should be- That European nations should be so disturbed is readily under standable In conservative France citizens view with alarm the Nazi stronghold of Germany the distance from Paris to Berlin may be covered by train in
  capital is about equidistant from Madrid and from London Sociastic, Communistc, and Fascist in fluences in other countries of constant concern to the French Government. They appear only slightly less dangerous to Britain.
 Nationalism is inbred characteristic of Euro pean peoples Frenchmen still remember with dread the German occupation of Paris in the FrancoPrus- sian War of 1870. Neither Spain or Italy has for gotten the occupation of Naples. Milan and Madrid by Napoleonic armies in the early 1800s. Young ch- dren brought up to recognize and fear potential antagonsm on the part of neighboring peoples. Po- tically and commercially European countries guard their colonial possessions with hawk-like intensity To the average individual civil exterritorial aggression constantly threatening national se- curity Attacks by another nation understood to mean not only loss of men and money, but also of national prestige.
 European history dates sixteen hundred years beyond American history The slow growth to inter national power began with the Caesars and has not yet ended. American history virtually began with the dscontent of the Pilgrim Fathers and substantial ed itself with the American Revolution and the War lof 1872, But being Anglo -Saxons we bear ennity toward our British cousins Canada and the United States are on amcable terms We do not hate the SpanardS because of the Cuban and Philippine Wars. We should remain neutraly amicabe with those who live the Atlantic We are likely to gain more by peaceful than by warlike means