Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-04-20
International
News Review
BY GEoRG sTRANDvoLD

The fact that Adolf Hitler today
celebrates his fiftieth anniversary
birthday is not half as disquieting
as the possibility that he may elect
it as occasion for staging new coup,
and the world is asking: Is he up
to something? Will it be Danzig this
time, or possibly the Polish Corridor?
Or won't it be anything, at all?
At the moment of writing it would
seem that the day will pass peace
fully enough, for Hitler has sum-
moned his parliament to a session
on April % and then will have some
thing to communicate to the legisla-
tors who will be convened for few
hours in their one and only capacity
of yes-men. The birthday celebra-
ton is not likely to take the form
of an annexation of the Corridor, but
it may very well be that Danzig will
be once more Incorporated in the
German Reich, and there will be no
serious objection to that, for the So
called Free City is, after all, an or
ganic part of Germany and should
never have been torn away from it..
Danzig will cause no conflict, but an
attempt against the Polish Corridor
unlikely this week, anyhow-would
be more serious matter for the rea-
son that Great Britain and France
now are pledged to rush to aid of
Poland in case of aggression against
any part of it's territory In other
words, and put bluntly-it would
mean war.
American Appeal.
It has been intimated that Hitler
on his birthday or at the session of
his parliament will announce to the
world what his reaction to the latest
peace vancouver will be- That took
the form of an appeal cabled few
days ago by President Roosevelt to
Hitler and Mussolini to whom it was
suggested that they agree not to attack
any of the following countries for
period of at least 10, and possibly of
25, years: Finland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark, Nor
way, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain,
Fire, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzer-
land, Liechtenstein, Gutenberg, Po-
land, Hungary, Roumania, Yugoslavia,
Soviet Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Tur-
key, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Pale
slime, Egypt and Iran (Persia).
These nations, in return, were to
be placed under obligation not to
attack Germany and Italy, and when
the agreement had been reached, it
was to serve as the basis for series
of conferences on disarmament and
economics, designed to make the
agreement permanent and thus to in
sure the perpetual peace of the world.
Immediate German and Italian re-
action was fury-especially in Ger
many where Roosevelt's suggestion
was deeply resented as coming from
"war monger"; Italian comment
was more restrained. But after day
of waiting, Berlin and Rome limited
that there might be something in the
American plan worth considering, and
that a complete rejection might not
VIC dSSCpI-
ance of parts of the plan, but, on the
other hand, there might be counter
suggestions of such nature that the
United States would not be able to
accept them.
Lining Up.
In the meantime the attempt to line
up the anti-dictatorial powers was
being continued. Great Britain and
France announced that they were
prepared to defend Roumania and
Greece, in case of aggression, with
all their forces, and were willing to
offer similar help to other Balkan
countries.
OF still greater potential import
ance was the statement that negotia-