Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1938-06-02
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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There is still a serious hitch, how
ever, and it became conspicuous
few days ago when the ineffective
non-intervention committee held an
other meeting in London; on that oc-
caSlon France reiterated the demand
that Italy must recall all her vol
unteers now serving in the Spanish
rebel armies of General Francisco
Franco, and Italy limited by way of
reply that as long as France main
tanned this attitude, it would be pretty
useless to talk. An attempt will, it
is understood, be made, anyhow,
and it will possibly be predicated on
the same arrangement as was made
between Italy and Great Britain,
namely, that the Italian troops are
not necessarily to be recalled from
Spain until the civil war in that
country is over.
1t is illuminating-if not exactly
exhilarating-to remember that the
non-intervention committee, repre-
senting 81 nations, for nearly two
years has decreed that all foreign
troops must leave Spain-and that
there at this time are more of them
than ever before.
Recognition.
Somehow, Italy has a most I'M
canny ability to ''get away with it,
even democratic powers yield to Mus
solini's demands The latest instance
of fhic ic hn 20 NJ III of Crnof pv.ifoi,,
and France tacitly-but with adequate
effect-recognized Ethiopia as an
Italian colony and undertook to per-
Suade other members of the League
of Nations to do the same. The
twenty-siXth nation to follow suit is
Denmark.
1t is, of course, an open secret
that whenever British diplomacy
wants other states to do its bidding,
it applies commercial pressure, and
since England buys from Denmark
more than any other country does,
it is more than possible that London
has given a sufficiently strong hint
that unless Denmark do as told,
British imports of butter, eggs and
bacon would be cut down. And-fur-
thermore-What can small country
do nowadays, or at any time, to resist
the dictates of the great powers?
Sweden's position is not yet stated;
Norway has limited that as soon as
the opportunity arises, she, too, will
recognize the supposed fact that Italy
was right in conquering Ethiopia.
Finland already has given the recog-
milton demanded.
War in Spain.
For many weeks the Spanish civil
war has been devoid of important
events; there have been transpositions
of armies, and there have been bonn
bardments of cities-the latest by
rebels of the city of Alicante-but
they have not in any essential mean
ing changed the course of the con-
flict. The important fact emerging
from all the bulletins is that the Span
ish government troops are still hold
ing out against the rebels, and that
its temporary capital, the city of
Barcelona-is still intact although it
has suffered severely from repeated
rebel air commandments.
Reshuffling.
Although the japanese armies in
China proved victorious at Suchow,
their success entailed such tremen-
douS costs that the government at
Tokyo sat up and took notice. Some
how, the impression gained Roadway
that Japan was not doing very well
in China, and the result of much
criticism, much complaint, was that
the japanese government a few days
ago was reorganized. Foreign Min
lister Koki Hirota was removed, and
in his place a general, Kazunari
Ugaki, was appointed; although he