Montana labor news., 1938-12-22
MAP OF OLD WORLD
is BEING MADE OVER
BY UNDE(LARED WARS

BY UNDEIARED WARS
The totalitarian theory of unde-
clared war will ring up its greatest
profit if Adolf Hitler forces the
Czechs to surrender their Sudeten
frontier mountain range.
Since 1881 the profits of unde-
clared military conflict have been
piled up on three continents by the
worlds Fascist bloc of Italy, Japan
and Germany, without regard for
protests coming chiefly from the
great democratic powers.
In Asia, the rich provinces of Man
churia fell to the japanese army
without a formal declaration of war.
In Africa, Premier Benito Mussolini
sent his Fascist troops across the
frontiers of Ethiopia without bother
ing to send Halle Selassie a notice
that war was on. In Spain, both
Italy and Germany have been chiefly
responsible for the success of Gen.
Francisco FRANCOIS rebel armies in
occupying three-quarters of the
country although neither has formal
ly declared war.
The march of to~talitarian armies
has been high-lighted by:
MANCHURIA
In 1881, the long-expected Japa-
nese conquest of China's three east
ern provinces began with the Muk-
den incident. Tokyo's armies under
took to suppress bandits threaten
ing Japanese economic interests. The
actual war was comparatively short
lived and the Japanese set up an
emperor-Kang Teh-to rule Man
churia with the support of Japanese
soldiers. The gain to Japan was
1903, 900 square miles; "a million
persons. In 1887, Japan began a
conquest of northern China which
soon began a g~eneralized struggle
for domination of the entire country
and is still in progress.
ETHIOPIA
In 1885, Italy bluffed off the threat
of League of Nations sanctions and,
with troops, tanks and airplanes, be-
gan the conquest of Ethiopia. Mus
solini's argument was that Ethiopian
tribesmen had been attacking Ital-
ians in adjacent Somaliland, and had
ambushed an Italian border demar-
cation commission in that region.
The warfare started in October and
on May 2, 1886, the emperor fled
from his capital at Adds Ababa.
Italy's gain was 100000 square miles
of territory; 100000 in population.
SPAIN
The conflict in Spain, starting as
civil war, soon developed into an
international war along theological
lines. Italy admittedly desired to
end the 'Leftist" government in
Spain because she considered it a
menace to Italian safety, and Ger
many has taken a less active role in
the fighting. There is at present
slight hope for an early end to the
warfare, but the Fascist-Nazi backed
rebels have conquered three-quar-
tiers of SPANS 190,050 square miles
and an undetermined share of the
nations twenty-three million popu-
lation. The rich mining regions of
northern Spain have fallen to
Franco, but the Loyalist government
still defends other extremely
wealthy areas such as the Almaden
mercury mines and the Barcelona
industrial section.
SUTHERLAND
The fate of Czechoslovakia's Su-
detenland-which never belonged to
Germany-is still uncertain, but it
would be the most important prize
yet to fall to the totalitarian states.
In addition to its 3 and one-half mil
lion population, the mountainous
region is industrially rich and the
'key" to German dominance eco
nomically and politically of all
central Europe.
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