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limited that that is just what they
may do.
In practice, that would mean that
if Italy, Germany and Portugal inter-
vened actively in favor of the Spanish
fascists, Russia and probably France
would step in for the purpose of lend
ing support to the now more and more
tOttering government. Such is the sit
uation that only a few days ago the
Spanish cabinet expressed the hope
that the Russians would come to the
aid of Madrid whose fall is, it seems,
imminent.
And that Italy does not close it's
eyes to the possibility of a pro-rebel
Intervention becomes evident from the
orders given by the Rome govern
ment to the effect that production in
the twelve hundred arms and NUM-
ed up.
1t is very evident that tension of the
kind now existing holds dire posi-
bilities, but against the prospect of
their becoming reality is the well-re-
membered fact that during the last
few years the Old World has on sew
eral occasions been on the brink of
war, and nothing happened.
AS rule, the only concrete result
of such alarms has been to stir up a
genuine war scare that brought addi-
tiOnal profits into the Golfers of the
private arms manufacturers. What
the present complications may lead to,
no one can, of course, know, but there
is some reason to think that they will
pass away.
Far East Situation.
Fraught with some element of dan
ger is, also, the Far Eastern situation.
1t will be recalled that Japan demand
ed apology and the payment of dam
ages because several Japanese citi-
zens had been murdered on Chinese
soil. China apologized; China was
willing to do almost anything; China
had no choice. So, a peaceable settle
ment was arrived at.
But just then three more Japanese
were shot on Chinese territory, and
now Japan became angry. insisting
that the Marking government must Of
fer guarantees that such happenings
would not be repeated. Not only that,
but Japan renewed her demands that
the five northern Chinese provinces
must secede from China and be weld
ed into a republic, with the distinct
understanding that its affairs were to
be administered from Tokyo
Then Moscow began to worry: Was
it really the intention of Japan to ex-
pand its empire to a point where it
might become a threat to Russian in
terests in Siberia and Mongolia? ia
pan neither denied nor affirmed that,
but intimated that Russia was trying
to strengthen her foothold in East
Asia for the purpose of establishing
communism in China, which, in that
case, would become a menace to ia
pan.
And so it goes, charges and counter
charges, fears and counter fears,
and while accusations and denials are
Forthcoming, the whole world sits on
edge wondering and worrying what
may be the outcome of all such devel-
Opments.
World Groups.
One clearly sees a prospect of d
clash-some time in the future-be-
tween the two world groups which
now are, roughly, classified as COM
munism and fascism; such a classifi-
cation is bit superficial, but it is
being used right along to denote the
contrast between the various shades
of liberal democracy and those of
reactionary despotism which increas-
ingly assumes the form of dictator
ship.
On two succeeding Sundays there
have been serious clashes between
the British and French fascists and
their opponents, incorrectly labeled as
a whole, communists. The civil war
in Spain is a symbol of that hostility
between democracy and dictatorship.
And in that light, too, must be in
terpreted the fact that Chancellor
Kurt Schusschnigg of Austria, last
Sunday made himself the supreme
dictator of his country, with, it is
widely reported, the express sanction
OF MussOlini. In recent years there
has been an increasing intimacy be-