Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-04-30
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Because of the central position of
France in European affairs, such
fight is of great interest far beyond
the border lines of the French re-
public, and it may cause reverbera-
tions in international developments.
One cannot at this time state def
nitely whether liberalism will ulti-
mately win in Spain and France, but
present indications are that fascism
in those two countries will suffer a
setback.
Italian FaSciSm.
However, Italian faScism continues
for the time being to register tri-
umphs. Mussolini's war of aggression
against Ethiopia is featured by vic
tory after victory, and soon his troops
expect to be in Adds Ababa, the cap
ital of the invaded country.
A few days ago the italian army
leadership introduced a new note into
the science of warfare: The Eth
opians were told in pamphlets scat
tered from airplanes over Adds ABA
ba that if they continued to resist,
they would be "destroyed"-in other
words, Italy prohibited the defense of
a country which had been attacked in
such way that the League of Ma
lions had condemned it.
1t has not been recorded that the
Philippians paid any attention to these
sinister warnings, for they are fight
ing desperately to keep the enemy
from attaining his final gOal-that
of the capture of the capital city.
1t is, however, a pretty hopeless
fight between a primitive people and
strongly organized and mechanical
army which employs for it's purposes
of conquest all the most modern
equipment ever invented and con-
structed.
And it is really depressing to see
with how little interest the rest of
the world is watching this merciless
and relentless swallowing-up of a
small nation by one of the great pow
ers which even claims that it occu-
pies a prominent place in the front
ranks of civilization.
Calm observers of certain interna-
tiOnal events cannot, of course, con-
cede the existence of civilization
the reason, too, that not a single ma
jor country has done anything deci-
sive in order to interrupt the muir
derOus campaign of Italy.
Nazism and Colonies.
The particularly German species
of fascism is known as national So
cialism-"nazism" for short. That
also, has triumphed on a couple of
important occasions: It's chief ex-
ponent, Adolf Hitler, chief executive
of Germany, carried out with COM
plete impunity his plan of rearming
his country in defiance of forbidding
treaty stipulations, and in the same
way militarized the Rhineland which,
according to the Versailles and the
Locarno treaties, was to remain de-
militarized.
In regard to Hitler's foreign policy
much may be said in its favor, for the
attitude of other nations, especially
that of France, has justified it. The
vulnerability of these other nations
themselves has made possible the i'm
pregnable position of Hitler and has
also made it possible for him to pre-
pare his claim for the restoration of
the overseas colonies which were TAX
en- from Germany as a result of the
World war. Just now this claim, al
though not yet presented formally,
forms a topic of diplomatic discus
sion in European capitals; in Paris
the quite unanimous view is that
Germany shall not once more take
possession of the colonies, but in Lon
don there is tendency to favor Ger