The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-04-21

all the ruthless application of totatarian warfare
 Italy will boast of this victory over a weak neigh bor Dictators are so in need of triumphs that the battle for Albania will be enshrined by the Fascists along with Ethiopia and Spain That Albania sue cessfuly resisted the invasion for time at several points should shame the dictators they capable of such emotion. Scanderbeg was evenly matched with the Turks That his descendants still fought against great odds is pledge that not all men will
 sign themselves the fate planned for them by the dictators
 Albania is a pawn in the larger game of power politics. The spacious for the invasion ad- 'anced by the Italians cloak their real aim Italy iegmented press says that the invasion necessar because King Fog was seeking Italian help to invade Yugoslavia This is laugh, because that the prin- cpal aim of Italy in taking over the country We are told that payments on Italian loans overdue that
 Italian residents must be protected-a formula learned his people To free the Albanians Italys military chine mows them down on their doorsteps!
 Albania is link in chain of encircement being drawn around Yugoslavia The dictators cry about le encircement of Germany, but they have been Eu- opes greatest practitioners of that policy Czechoso- vakia encirced and then destroyed Poland is now encirced and her fate rests dubious bilateral treaty with Britain. France through the Spanish quest is partially encirced and the curtain has yet risen on the last act of that drama.
 Interference of the western powers in the Polish affair step which puzzled hitherto unopposed Hit Ter, turned attention to the south. In In- nsbruck Gen. Wilhelm Ketel, chief of the German high command, conferred with Gen Alberto Parian chief of the Italian general staff Without doubt the Albanian adventure formed the bulk of their discus sions
 Italy will threaten Yugosavia from the Albanian base Italy will also menace it from the west The Germans will press in from the north. And thus Bel grade will be urged the advisabity of joining forces with the Rome Berlin axis, abandoning any idea of seeking protection from the west.
 MusSOlini of course, has a second aim in this move He wants his share of the spells which Ger many has been collecting with alarming regularity. His last chance to maintain foothold in Europe is along the eastern shore of the Adriatic Hitler has not yet given full support to Il Duce's Mediterranean claims. So while he may Yugoslavia in the name of the axis Mussolni will also be thinking oi his interests
 The difficulties in the way of an ant-Hitler bloc become apparent The Poles do not wish tc enter a general alliance that would include Soviet Russia Without it they still at the mercy of the Nazis, for all Londons promises. Warsaw seeks to reach understanding with the smaller eastern states But the great difficulty here to reconcile the antagonisms of the Hungarans and the Rumanians The Hungarians, apparently, bent on restoring their pre-war territories with German aid and Ru- mania is of their chief fields of operation. Hence to expect Budapest and Bucharest to to terms to stop Hitler is to anticipate too much If they could not oresee the fate that awaited them and join forces in normal times it is certain they will be kept apart by the machinations of Nazi politics and agents if nothing else.
 It is ironc that the least important nation in the game of power politics becomes the to offer the greatest resistance. If the rest of Europe takes hint from the valiant stand of the Sons of the Eagle their battle may not have been in vain