The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-10-06
Weekly News Review
California, Home of Pensions,
Tries another Plan This Year
BY Joseph w. La Bine

spreading throughout the U. S. In
Ohio, where two rival groups
planned to introduce an initiative Pc
tition in November's election, chief
battle was whether $50 shall be paid
on Wednesday or Thursday.
Foreign
Since he became German chan
cellor in 1888, Adolf Hitler has held
an unknown quantity in his mailed
fist, has scared the world with
threats that may only be bluffs. A
master of psychology, he renounced
Versailles when France and Brit
ain were worried about Italy's in
vasion of Ethiopia. In 1886 his
Rhineland coup was staged under
similar circumstances. BY last
spring, when he marched into Aus
tria, the bluff had been so success
full that none arose to challenge him.
But two months ago when Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler began bluffing his
way into annexation of Czechoslo-
vakia's Sudeten frontierland, Brit
ain and France were ready to bluff
in turn. Franco-British bluff was a
promise to defend CZechoslovakia.
Germany's return bluff was def
ance, delivered at September's Nazi
congress in Nuremberg. Then,
weary of whistling to keep up their
courage, Paris and London offered
peace via capitulation. Terms: ~
Berlin's annexation of Sudeten
areas rs per cent German; (2 pleb-
iscite in Sudeten areas from so to rs
per cent German; 60 German
promise to guarantee Czechoslovak-
las independence.
Fortnight ago, when British
Prime Minister Neville Chamber
lain delivered these terms at Codes
berg, democracies called it 'tsell-
out" But to Adolf Hitler even this
was not enough. He wanted more
land, moreover refused to- guaran-
tee Czechoslovakia's future. His
deadline for Czech agreement: Oc-
tober /.
If Der Fuehrer had bluffed too
far, if Democracies had scored a
point and made Germans wonder
about their chancellor's wisdom, it
was no stroke of genius on Neville
Chamberlain's part. Upshot of
Godesberg was a vindication of the
British prime minister and swift
turning of world sentiment against
Germany. But greater upshots
were Czechoslovakia's amazingly
fast mobilization, Frances decision
to fight, and London's offer to fol-
low suit.
To London, where only week
before he had helped draft the first
proposal, went French Premier Ed
Guard Daladier. Still anxious to
keep peace, Europe's last two great
democracies offered a new agree
ment. Terms: Transfer without
plebiscite of areas over so per cent
German; (2) exchange of popula-
tons in other areas; 90 interna-
tional guarantee of Czechoslovakia's
independence.
But Adolf Hitler was still ready
to bluff. Facing rising anti-war SEN
timent, forced to show his hand, he
summoned countrymen to Berlin S
vast Sportspalast, told them his
Godesberg terms were final, that
Germany's bluff has been backed
all along by real strength.
Excerpts: 81 can tell you now
fbot have cnant hi1Iiorc for ory,, q
ments We have created an un-
paralleled air force and tank force.
I want to declare regarding the SUI
deten problem, that my patience is
exhausted The Sudeten Ger
mans will now take the liberty de-
MED them for 20 years."
But at the very moment Der
Fuehrer spoke, a world moving
swiftly to war knew the eventual