The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-03-21

NEW YORK, Week ending March 14.-The world lived again those early summer days of 1914. Allies of old were lining up anew.
 Now, as then, the universal ques- tion is:
 Will there be war?
 Now as then, Britain holds the balance of power With Britain may well rest the answer.
 In sending his troops into the Rhineland, demilitarized by the victories of 1913, Adolf Hitler did much more than denounce the Locarno pact of Versailles, with it's covenant of the League of Nations.
 The remaining Locarno powers immediately accepted this basis. Meeting in London, their represen- tatives declared Hitlers action constituted clear violation of ar ticles 42 and 43 of the treaty of Versailles and the Locarno pact
 The Locarno pact signed by Ger many, France, Italy, England and Balgium) was concluded within the framework of the treaty It recog- nized certain treaty provisions, in cluding the administration of the Rhine zone.
 Thus the council of the League of Nations has assumed jurisdiction, although Germany left the League a year ago.
 Summoned by the appeal of France and Belgium, the council of the League convened today in Lon don, instead of Geneva, for it was in London Il years ago that the Locarno pact was signed.
 Seldom has the council met under such ominous circumstances. Per- haps the council realized the very existence of the League was in the balance.
 It had before it. these latest words from Hitler, shouted to the jubilant throngs of Germans who cheered the march of soldiers into the Rhineland:
 ''I assure you nothing, absolutely nothing, will induce us to renounce this regained sovereignty over the Rhineland zone.'
 Against him, Belgium and France were standing firm. They demand ed either the withdrawal of the troops or the imposition of sanctions against Germany by the members of the League.
 To offset the 50,000 or so German soldiers sent into the Rhineland, France amassed thousands on the Alsace-Lorraine frontier. The French Senate hastily completed ratification of the mutual assistance military pact with the Soviet Union
 This pact provides the aid of the vast Red Army if France is at tackled by Germany
 Like France, Soviet stood for sanctions With France, too, in its demands against Germany, stood it's allies in the Little Entente (Ru- mania, Czechoslavakia and Yugo- slavia.)
 Hitler's action also alienated Po- land. Despite the increasing friend ship in recent years between War saw and Berlin, the Polish Gov ernment quickly notified France it would respect it's alliance with Paris.
 In the middle stood England. The Baldwin Government sought de- lay strove to gain some concessions from Hitler to offer to France and it's allies.
 On the question of sanctions, oddly enough, Britain and Italy were thinking along the same line.
 Unlike it's stand in, the Italo- Ethiopian crisis, Britain was cool toward sanctions against Germany It is using every means to effect a conciliation before the question of sanctions comes before the council next week.
 Britain is in no position, at this time. to pursue any other course. Its fleet is concentrated in the Mediterranean and nearby wa ters. Its defense forces have been vastly depleted. Its rearmament