Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1936-11-19
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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Henceforth all that part of the rivers
within German borders, and the en-
tire Kiel canal, were to be considered
German waterways over which no
other power would be permitted to
exert any control.
This new attack on the much bat
tered versailles treaty continues the
strategy begun when Hitler defied
the treaty by beginning to create
new army and navy and when he &C.
cupied the demilitarized Rhineland
zone. Such actions have been deeply
resented by statesmen in the former
entente and allied countries, there
have been notes of hot protest, and
when the indignation had duly be-
come a matter of record, nothing more
was heard. Hitler, as is said in the
United States, got away with IT,
There is every reason to believe that
no one will make him change his
announcement of full Germanizat1on
of the rivers mentioned and the kiel
canal-for Hitler knows, and all other
diplomats know, that the nations
which signed the Versailles treaty
themselves are so vulnerable that 1t
might not be wise to protest too
loudly against merely German viola
tions of that much-disputed docu-
ment.
Soon there will not be much left
of the Versailles treaty, and there
seems to be tacit agreement-it
would, of course, never do to make a
public admission of the fact-that the
sooner the world gets rid of that
most remarkable instrument the bet
ter for all concerned.
Against Russia.
Of more portentious significance at
the moment than almost anything
else in the international field is the
violent hostility which Germany and
Italy are expressing against Russia.
The air being aQuiver with hatred,
it takes but little to bring about a
situation that may resolve itself only
in armed clash. 1t has not come to
that yet. 1t may not. But possibll1-
ties are not lacking.
The other day at a conference in
London, Dino Grandi, Italy's ambas-
sador to Great Britain, suddenly di-
rected a volley of scathing words
against Russia, for the moment repre-
scented by Ambassador Ivan Maisky
Grandi said that RuSsias general at
titude was challenge to Europe, and
Maisky holly retaliated by stating
that Italy is nothing but Germany
errand boy when it comes to Russian
affairs; for that matter, Maisky adj
ded, Italy stands revealed before the
world as the arch violator of inter
national agreements, as a brutal ag-
gressor-just think of Ethiopia
While such an exchange of words
does not constitute cause of war, ii
is certain that it is anything but con,
ducive to friendship between the two
nations concerned.
Moscow and Berlin.
At the same time the Russian gov,
eminent has found it necessary to ar.
rest several Germans on the charge
of having tried to promote German
Nazism within the Soviet borders;
Russia also charges that telephone
conversations with the Russian embas-
sy in Berlin have been tapped by the
secret German police, and that every
one who has business with the en-
bassy is forced to submit to eXamina-
ton by the German police before ac-
cess can be gained to the Russian
offices. Further, Russia expresses
displeasure that the airplane route
between Moscow and Berlin, jointly
owned by German and Russian capital,
suddenly has been abandoned on Ger
man initiative.
Then the Germans; we'll. they say,
Russia has actually blockaded the
German embassy in Moscow, and
through it's great tourist bureaus has
spread Communistic propagan d i
throughout the German Reich.
So far, this squabble has been re-
duced to mutual diplomatic protests
Much of it can be said to have its
origin in the inciendary speeches
which Hitler delivered at Nuremberg
about three months ago when he
spoke against Russia with a ferocity
that took even his own countrymen
aback. Shortly after that, Mus solini
took up where Hitler temporarily left
off, and the two fascist dictators ap-
pear to have found each other in a
touchingly deep friendship ever since
"a friendship of the somewhat pre-
carious kind which is based on hat
red of a third nation.
Itinerant Diplomacy.
Largely on the background of this
animOsity, one must consider the con.
ferences recently going on in central
Europe, for the idea on which they
are based-that is, the ultimate idea
is that some day it will be neces-
sary for Germany and Italy to go to
war with Russia (and here must
needs be implied, with France, too
since the French are the allies of the
Russians). Quite lately, the Italian
foreign minister, GaleaZzo Ciano