Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-04-21
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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Fluctuations of War.

Dictatorship has, of course, received
most helpful boost in the form of
British willingness to bend knees to
Rome and, as has already been dem
onstrated by recent events, to Berlin.
In France, the new Daladier govern
ment demanded-and obtained-from
most obedient parliament the pow
er to rule dictatorially for more than
| three months in order to settle labor
conflicts, carry through the arma-
ments program, and adjust the ma
tional finances.
But on the battlefields of China
there has been at least temporary
setback for that Japanese imperialism
which is so closely akin to dictator
ship that it has been enthusiastically
and formally endorsed by Italy as well
as by Germany: It seems that the
Chinese guerilla warfare has resulted
in most disastrous defeats to the
japanese armies in southern Shan
tung where the Chinese have been
victorious at Taierchwang, and where
they have walled up Japanese
garrison in the city of Yihsien, at
the same time making it difficult
if not impossible for the Japanese
to direct reinforcements to this part
of the invaded country. 1t may be
that the japanese defeats are of,
relatively speaking, minor import
ance, but the principal fact is that
the armies of the mikado have made
no progress in China for several
weeks. So far, the results are decisive
to neither side, but they at least prove
that the Chinese are far from ready
to give up.
In Spain, the civil war during the
last few days has been featured by
the rebel capture of the town of Vim
aroz-in itself of but little import
ance, but of significance when it is
realized that that community is stu
ated on the shore of the Mediter-
ranean, and that its capture means the
complete isolation of Catalonia and
Barcelona, the temporary capital of
legitimist Spain, from the rest of
the country.
1IC SoVCI pOSltlOIl ID IIlOSl
precarious because no help may be
expected from abroad while, on the
other hand, General Francois armies
are actively supported by thousands
upon thousands of Italian and Ger
man soldiers. And still, the govern
ment feels that the end of the war
is not yet near at hand; there is still
Barcelona reportS-a hope that
Francois victories may be turned into
defeats.
Bloody Easter.
Palestine conflicts of long standing
attained climax on Sunday when
British soldiers celebrated Easter by
scattering machine-gun bullets and
bombs among Arabs near Jerusalem;
as a result of that bombardment and
of fighting between Jews and Arabs,
siXty-three persons were killed
There is no prospect of peace in Pale
slime where Arabs fight because they
feel the British permit too many Jews
to settle, and where opposition against
a British plan of partitioning the
country into Jewish, and Arab and
a British zone is very strong.
Nipped in the Bud.
Roumania had its own particular
species of Easter celebration when
government police arrested 300 al
legged members of a conspiracy to
overthrow King Carol and establish
a fascist "Iron Brigade" government.
1t appears that the plotters had gath
cred vast quantities of arms and mu-
nitions in preparation for the con-
templated coup d'etat, but someone
revealed that fact to the authorities,
and then the jig was up. King Carol
likes to be a dictator himself, and
while he is not unsympathetic to fas-
cists, generally speaking, he is not
DESTROYS of surrendering his power
to them.