Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-07-22
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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@ Western Newspaper Union

(SOntlnueO ITOIu rage ~
ferocity. Dispatches have it that
some of the wars heaviest and blood
lest fighting has been taking place
since Sunday at Brunette, some IA
or 16 miles west of Madrid. A short
time ago the government troops oc-
cupied that town, and now the rebels
tried to dislodge them; in doing so
they had to resort to warfare Of the
fiercest kind, and it is known that
thousands of men have been killed;
at one time $50 airplanes took part
in the battle.
While the Brunette drama is being
staged in all its horror, suave diplo-
mats are sitting down in London to
discuss Foreign Minister Anthony
Eden's latest proposal for isolating
Spain; the plan received the approval
of the British government and now
is before the international non-inter-
vention committee, comprising the
representatives of q nations. A fun
damental detail in Mr.. Edens plan
is that all foreign volunteers already
in Spain be withdrawn, and that no
more arrive. And this is the very
point where obstacles are almost GER
tain to be interposed by Germany
and Italy, for they have thousands
and thousands of men in the fascist
rebel armies; the number of French
men, Russians and other foreigners
among the government troops is said
to be relatively insignificant.
Eden would give the Valencia gov
eminent as well as Rebel General
Francisco Franco the status of recog-
nized belligerents; against this part
of the proposal Russia and France are
almost certain to voice strong pro-
tests, for that would, in effect, amount
to legalization of the rebellion.
Should the committee agree to the
plan as now submitted, it will mean,
also, that the naval partol of the
Spanish coasts will be suspended
and that would suit Germany and
Italy.
On the whole, the British plan does
seem a bit more favorable to the
rebels than to the legitimate Span
ish government, and it is by no means
certain that it, in the end, will re-
fleet glory on Anthony Eden.
Not Lost Sight OF.
AS complicated as international af-
fairs have become nowadays, 1t IS
almost inevitable that Soviet Russia
will, somehow, become involved IN
whatever conflict may develop in
Eastern Asia, and its interest in the
Spanish civil war the Moscow gov
eminent has demonstrated in various
ways.
Under these circumstances the Of
fetal Soviet press the other day
deemed it prudent-and perhaps it
waste remind the rest of the world
that Russia is ready for any emer-
gency, especially in regard to aerial
warfare. With justifable pride the
Russian newspapers emphasized the
significance of the flights recently
made by two groups of Russian avla-
tors all the way from Moscow via
the North Pole to points on the Pa
cific coast of the United States; these
flights, while undertaken in the in
terest of peace and trade, serve a
further purpose in letting the rest
Eof the world know that Russia is
superior in regard to aircraft. Per-
haps the japanese government is
realizing this-with peculiar emo
tons. For, it stands to reason that
filters who think nothing of crossing
the North Pole and the Arctic wastes
would consider it mere children's
play to fly from Moscow to Tokyo
and fly by the thousand!-in case
of some trouble affecting Soviet in
terests in the Far East. The Russian
papers, also, very bluntly under
scored the fact that between Moscow
and most European capitals the fly