Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-04-23
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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tions be attempted, one is inclined to
believe that the British policy was
justified in view of the fact that no
sanctions are ever totally effective
unless they are agreed to by all ma
tions. In this particular case it was
known that neither the United States
nor Germany would take part in any
sanctions, and that Japan's willing
ness was a matter of extreme doubt.
So, the upshot of it all is that small
nation was-prObably from the very
eginning-destined to be devOured by
a big power, both of them members
of an organization which had, in a
quite specific manner, undertaken to
guarantee the security of minor coun-
tries against attack from those who
are stronger. Fascist dictatorship has
been gloriously vindicated! The prin-
ciple of the self determination of ma
tions has been put to a test-at the
cost of the life of such a nation.
Berlin ExultatiOn.
Nazist dictatorship, which differs
from that of Fascism in name merely,
also has trfumphed. Whatever Adolph
Hitler, chief executive of Germany,
has set out to do, he has done. He got
the Saar Basin back; defying the YER
sailles peace treaty, he rearmed his
country; defyfng that treaty and the
Locarno treaty, he remilitarized the
Rhineland- nothing dire hap
pened to him or to Germany in spite
of all kinds of threats. Last Monday
Hitler celebrated his forty-seventh
birthday anniversary with a military
display so respondent and so power
full that Germany has never seen the
like-not even in the days of the
Kaiser. Privately, he must have been
tempted to look back over a most
phenomenal career, for not so many
years ago he was a plain Austrian
house painter; then he became a sol
der in one of the German World war
armies; tried his hand at a coup d.
etat; was imprisoned; formulated the
idea of his National Socialist party;
made it reality in the form of a
parliamentary minority group, and
finally surged to the top as the chan
cellor and the president of Germany
(although he does not want to be
known as president, merely as "Reich-
sfuehrerD. Some of his methods are
open to extreme criticism, especially
in regard to his domestic policies, but
no one can deny that he is, as Bald
win said at Worcestershire last Satur-
day, the man who holds the destiny
of Europe in the hollow of his hand"
1t might be added that the militant
narrOwmindedness of certain other ma
tions- among them that which Mr.:
Baldwin representatives. made that
evolution possible.
Much Unrest.
While the fear of an imminent
European war has, to some extent,
abated, there is still the African
trouble to keep the world on tiptoes;
there is also potential war brewing
in Asia. between Russia and Japan,
but indications are that its outbreak
is somewhat remote; there is finally
a symptom of general nervousness in
the news from various other countries.
In Poland the other day a funeral
procession caused bloody street de-
monstration, resulting in the killing
of fifteen persons. Another funeral
procession moving through the streets
of Madrid gave rise to series of
street fights in that and other Span
ish cities, and several persons lost
their lives. Immediately upon the
conclusion of funeral services for a
prominent CroatF in Zagreb, Jugo-
Slavia, a dozen Serbs were KIDNAPPED
from the very door of the cathedral,
led to the outskirts of the city, and
shot down in their tracks,. Such ira
gic episodes are in themselves not so
very important, if one judges from
the viewpoint of the effect they may
have on the peace of the world, but
they are important as symptoms of
a state of unrest which is becoming
widespread, and which does not in
spire a great. deal of hope.