The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-11-24

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Terrorism arrived from, Vienna.
Cardinal Innitzer's palace in Vien-
ma. Now this battle has spread to
Munich, where Michael Cardinal
Won Faulhaber's palace was stoned.
At Salzburg the Catholic university
society has disbanded.
The immediate excuse for a &C.
hour anti-Jewish hysteria was the
assassination in Paris of Ernest Won
Rath, German diplomatic attache,
by a 17-year-old Polish Jew. Right
eously proclaiming that German
Jews are answerable for the anti
Nazi acts of world Jewry, Germany
has resorted to medieval terrorism
and forced her Jewish citizens into
such an economically impossible sit
uation that Standardization ap-
pears to be the eventual result.
This seemingly ill-reasoned solu-
ton of the Jewish problem appar-
emily typifies the Nazi method of
dealing with enemies, real or imagi-
nary. Observers are certainly not
inclined to accept the Won Rath
murder as a reason for the latest
wave of persecution. Probably
better answer is that totalitarian
rulers must have constant "cause
celehre" and that Nazidom, having
won its Czechoslovakian cause, has
found a new wave of Jewish perse-
cution the most satisfactory method
of keeping national enthusiasm
whipped up. However, since world
opinion has rebelled against such
a gruesome policy, it may prove
boomerang.
Foreign
To ward off Germany's aggres-
sion on southeastern Europe, Tur-
keys late President Renal Ataturk
led formation of a Balkan entente.
Its members: Greece, Turkey, Ru-
mania and Jugoslavia. In the GEN.
ter lies independent Bulgaria, still
sulking over World war territorial
losses to Greece, Jugoslavia and
Rumania, waiting for the highest
bidder to buy her favor.
Since dynamic President Ataturk
died, since Germany's economic
drive has borne fruit this year in
Austria, Hungary and Czechoslo-
vakia, the Balkan entente is now
looking for every possible means of
solidifying itself. Observers predict
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won territory to Bulgaria before
January /, also that Greece and Ru-
mania will do likewise. In return,
Bulgaria will join the Balkan en-
tente.
Meanwhile, although the entente
will be strengthened by this shift of
frontiers, Turkeys anti-Nazi posi-
ton is not nearly so strong under
her new president, Ismet Inonu, as
under Ataturk. Although Turkey
has long been pro-British, England's
vacillating policy of recent months
has forced the Turks to seek other
alliances. While an admirer of the
United States and Great Britain,
Inonu cannot forget the obligations
his nation assumed when it recently
received a huge loan from the
Reich. Thus he must cooperate with
southeastward-bound Adolf Hitler.
Desperately seeking to avert ma
tional bankruptcy, France has is
sued 80 decree laws imposing every
restriction possible without violating
the traditional principles of French
government. The gold reserve has
been retaluated at the rate of ITO
francs to the pound sterling, giving
the government a paper profit of %
billion francs. All taxes have been
raised and the controversial five-day
work week has been modified with
out discarding its principle. Forced
to make sacrifices usually imposed