Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-09-09

international complications. One
might be tempted to add that there
really should be, since a group of
powerful nations by solemn treaty
have pledged themselves to uphold
the integrity and the independence
of China. But, as matter of fact,
there are no disturbances of this
kind in sight. European powers
and the United States-calmly look
at the attempted japanese dissection
of China, and utter feeble and polite
little note of protest only when their
own cherished interests are in danger
of becoming jeopardized. For China
they raiSe-nary a hand When they
file complaints and protests, it is mere
ly because the lives and properties of
their own nationals in the war zone
are endangered. They give no i'm
preston of being at all interested
in respecting their own pledges.
Apparently prompted by the some
what specious claim that American
commerce with Japan would suffer
losses and that Japan would be in
directly aided by a United States
proclamation of neutrality, the WASH
ington government to date has alb
stained from assuming neutrality; it
it equally friendly to China and
Japan, eager to supply both nations
with whatever they need-in spite
of the obvious fact that what is hap
pening is nothing less than breach
of that guarantee which was signed
by Japan itself, the United States and
seven other powers
Spanish War.
internationally speaking, the Span
iSh civil war is fraught with direr
possibilities than is the Asiatic crisis:
ever since the trouble between the
legitimist Madrid government and
the rebel fascists started, those DOS
sibilities have been vivid, but hardly
ever more than now, for a mysterious
submarine boat has been destroying
British, French and Russian ship
ping, and for that reason drastic ac
ton is being contemplated by the
powers directly involved as well as
by some others.
If it develops that the undersea
pirate is an insurgent Spanish YES
sci, the danger of complications is
not imminent, but should it be proved
that-aS the French and the Russians
suspect-it is Italian, the conse-
quences may be characterized as in
calcuable
Tomorrow (Friday) the problem is
to come before a conference in Switz-
erland where France and Great Brit
ain will propose that all non-Spanish
submarines be withdrawn from the
Mediterranean in order to make pos
sible an unhampered search for the
wave-concealed hold-up man.
Originally, it was intended to have
that conference at Geneva, but since
her Ethiopian adventure re-
membering the shower of condemna-
tons that fell upon her-Italy has
been rather diffdent about having
anything to do with Geneva, for that
name, internationally speaking, is
synonymous with the League of Ma
tons, and if there is any organiza-
ton that Mussolini's country wants
to steer clear of, it is that. So, the
conference has been set for "a place
near Geneva"-in order not to Of
fend Italian SenSibilitieS!
At Nuremberg.
In progress this week at Nurem-
berg is the annual national meeting
of the German National Socialist
party-the only political party per-
mitted in Germany. Often those
meetings serve as the vehicle of the
theology of Adolf Hitler, chief execu-
tive of the German Reich-as, for in
stance, last year when he authorized
his closest advisers to utter against