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INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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history that ornaments usually turn
out to be for aggressive purposes and
war rather than for defense and
peace. Great powers do not arm for
peace.
German Submarines.
AS great power, Germany is in
the same category; it arms for what
it claims to be peaceful purposes, but
all the world knows that in the case
of this as well as other powerful
nations, that is not the fact Since
Hitler became the chief executive of
the German nation, the country has
rearmed so tremendously that it now
is first-rate factor in Europe, from
military viewpoint.
The strange thing is that Great
Britain, one of the world war victors
consigning Germany to a permanent
state of disarmament, acquiesced in
its rearmament program-at least, did
not protest very vigorously against
it. And almost four years ago Great
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to Germany's building a new navy
corresponding in size and tonnage to
that of the British itself; in the
Anglo-German agreement there was
stipulation to the effect that the
German submarine tonnage must not
exceed As percent of the British. The
other day Germany announced that
it was planning to build most effec-
tive submarine fleet-Within the let
ter of the agreement. How? Simply
by constructing large number of
quite small boats! And still, when
you add up the tonnage of them all,
the total will be found to be in con-
formity with that agreed upon. But
the actual result will be that Ger
many will have a multitude of small
submarines able to swarm all over
the seas and constitute menace for
any prospective enemy.
1t was case of very simple mathe-
matics: Germany is allowed so and
so many thousand tons in submarines;
all right: Instead of having, for in
stance, 40 boats with a total tonnage
of, say 10000, it will have hundred
or smaller boats with the
very same total tonnage. Neat
isn't it?
Civil War.
AS the new year daWned, Rebel
General Francisco Francois most re-
cent offensive against the legitimate
Spanish governments armies was de-
veloping on a vaSter scale than has
been known for some months. Franco
claims the capture of number of
villages, some of them said to be of
strategic importance, but his bulle-
tins of victory are refuted by an
nouncements from the government.
In reality, outside Spain no one knows
anything definite about the situation
at the present moment. It is known,
however, that Frances aViators
bombed Barcelona several times dur
ing the recent holidays and that some
activity was reported in the region
around Madrid where comparative
quiet has been reigning for some time.
mo Want Peace"
Rumors to the effect that China had
started secret peace negotiations with
Japan have caused the expulsion of
Wang Chingwei, former Chinese
premier, from the official party of the
country, the Kuomintang. 1t was true
that he opened negotiations, but it
also appears to be true that he was
not authorized by the government to
do so, and since it developed that
he had offered Japan the complete
surrender of China, his efforts were
checked; China does not want peace
now-at least, not at the cost of sur
render.