Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-03-18

other very seriously, the offended
part is aroused into making what is
known as a professionally a Wig
OrOus one Ohere were plenty of them
on the cables during the years of
the world war;; for milder offenses,
| a SOcalled comment is considered
sufficient. And it was to a comment
the American government resOrted
the other day when U. S. Ambassador
William f. Dodd in Berlin appeared
before German Foreign Minister Kon-
stantin Won Neurath with a statement
to the effect that the aspersions which
the German press had cast on GER
tain sections of the American people
had been considered very painful.
The violent outbursts of the German
newspapers had been OccasiOned by
the New York Mayor LaGuardia's ref
erence to ReichSfuehrer Adolf Hitler
as that brown-shirted maniac who is
a menace to the peace of Europe
In retaliation, the German press used
unrestrained language, some of it of
a kind that American papers cOnsid-
cred unfit to reprint.
Herr Won Neurath assured Mr.. DCdd
that the newspapers over there had
been Just a bit too eXcited-"under-
standably excited" he said-but that
they meant no harm; they had had
no intention of injuring the SenSi-
bilities of the American people. And
that was all there was to that. But
fin
Their attacks!
1t throws a curious light on press
freedom in Germany that newspaper
readers over there have not been told
what LaGuardia's remark really was;
they have been informed that the
American government had offered an
apOlOgy-such as it waS-tO Germany,
but no inkling was given that that
same government had presented pro-
testing comment" on the German
press violence!
Aside from all this, there is general
agreement that LaGuardia unneces-
sarily went out of his way to insult
man who-whatever one may or may
not think about him-is the recog-
nized head of a great nation.
Affairs Envoy.
Hailed as Allah's Envoy, Prime
Minister BenitO MussOlini of Italy is
making a triumphal tour of parts of
his" North African possessions, not
ably Libya, where he is everywhere
greeted with tremendous Outbursts of
o,th tho anninnt Pom a
Caesars whom he tries to emulate, he
proudly views the cOnquests which
have been made by Italian arms, and
he now has proclaimed that not only
is Italy a great Christian kingdom.
but also a real Mohammedan empire.
There are some sinister shadows
thrown over the sunny picture of il
Duce in Africa; first there is the
minor one that about 25 years ago
when Italy went to war to snatch
from Turkey what is now the Italian
colony of Libya, MussOlini-then a
socialist editor-was so violently OPP
posed to colonial warfare that his
writings against it landed him in Jail.
Then-the more tragic one: Slowly
the world has learned what really
happened in Ethiopia as the result
of the attempted assassination of Vice
roy Grazziano a few weeks ago; at
first it was reported that "a few hun
dred natives" had been killed in re-
taliation; now London papers of the
type usually reliably informed, state
that the number was six thousand
men, women and children: according
to these sources, a general order to
kill all natives within reach was is
sued. and Italian soldiers Obeyed with
out hesitation. In some papers the
massacre is characterized as the most
horrible and most unjustified in mod
ern times.
Those things are not done without
the order-or the sanctioned the
man who now in Africa, not far from
the recently conquered Ethiopia, per-
mits himself to be hailed as the en-
voy of Allah that is, in less Moham-
medan verbiage, the representative of
God