The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-28

when, as, and if Hitler ultimately selzes the sector along the Rhines ordered demilitarized by the treaty of Versailles, is reported to have appealed to the British for counsel suggestion, aid, or anything you like. Mussolini and Der Etlehrer are pictured as cooking up ans other alliance similar to the one which went overheard during the Great War.
 I'm Spain
 The elections in Spain with their result of at least temporary government control by the radical parties have raised the bugaboo of the possible erection of spanish Bolshevist state. Whatever fouEl~ dalton there may be for the ru- mors cabled from Warsaw and Brussels, Rome and Berlin, there is pretty good reason to entertain the possibility of Q Communist regime in King Alfonso's former bailiwick. The memory of what happened there in the Red revo" lution of october 1884 when some $500 were killed, more than 10000 wounded and over half Q billion dollars worth of property was de" stroyed is still fresh in the minds of those who have given the epan~ ish situation more than casual ate tention. Short as the uprising was, bloody as was It's toll, and dee spite the Imprisonment of thou- sands of participants, the election returns show that the spirit which created the revolt has neither died nor been killed. Your trained Bol. shevist loves to fish in troubled waters. Spain Is torn with dis. sension and the rest of Europe iS worried to the jitters over It's own troubles just as 1t was in 1914. A lighted match tossed into the con. tinental powder magazine will ae the same moment touch oil the Bolshevist ammunition dumps from one end of Spain to the other. Communist leaders have already declared that the present governmental construction, made up as 1t Is of Q dozen differing radical parties is 6 natural for them; that 1t cannot possibly last, and that when the fall comes out of the ruins will rise Q Oommuniet revolution which will not fail this time to achieve It's cad.
 Uneasiness at Home
 Consideration of the European war scares brings us to an Aliaer- ican issue. Failure on the part or Congress to enact neutrality legis- iation with teeth in its jaws has caused bitter resentment in guar. ters which would keep us out Of war ct any cost. In this instance at least 1t would Do inanifestly unjust to accuse either party to the dispute as to what exact form our neutrality should assume, or low political motives in their as- sumption of positions. Those who would compel the president to fols low the provisions of mandatory legislation have as much sound argument to justify their stand as those who insist that his powers should be only discriminatory. The decision to postpone the adoption of 0 more definite policy until Q later and less heated political at- mosphere makes possible really studious consideration of on ad- mittedly difficult problem, is al- together reasonable. Two profits have accrued to the nation as Q whole as c result of the neutrals ity debate. ono is tho amend- ment to tho present act which for- bids the extension of credit to the beliigorent parties. Tho other is the realization which has been brought home to the people that when 1t comes to real neutrality we cannot as Q nation have our pie and our penny too. If we wish to bo neutral we have to buy 1t in terms of business, an dollars ana cents. We can refuse to sell to ono or both contending parties; we can do business with either one or tho other or both. But the moment we discriminate, for buSis
 ness reasons between c wartime aggressor and the victim we caiis not escape the logical coilse. quence, ultimate participation in c conflict where we have nothing involved but c financial stake: Adding the cost of the bonus, ana c possible creation Of another peii- sion system to tho more than twenty billion dollar debt of the last War, 1t would seem that, eliminating every other consid- eration including that Of human life, real neutrality would Do cheap