Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-09-28
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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getting was good. The funny thing
is that just as Russia declares itself
perfectly satisfied with what it got,
Germany is equally satisfied with the
40 percent territorial gains left when
Russia had acquired co.
Siegfried- Maginot.
That the victories in Poland will
have bearing on the war between
Germany and England-France at the
Siegfried and Maginot lines had been
forecast, and the prediction appears
to have come true, for Germany has
been able to release many divisions
from the Polish campaign and send
them to the German-French border
as reinforcements.
Whether the Russians will join the
fight there, is problematical. OFF,
cially, Germany and Russia are not
allies-they have mere signed nom
aggression treaty, but, of course, the
Russian invasion of Poland lent
color to the possibility that there
might be regular treaty of alliance.
That is not known. It is, however,
believed, that Russia will rest on its
laurels for the present, having, very
inexpensively, acquired the larger
part of Poland. Judging from present
indications, Germany will fight Great
Britain and France alone.
Slow Motion.
1t has painfully surprised the world
that Great Britain and France were
utterly unable to redeem their pledges
of support to Poland. When states
men and generals at London and
Paris now promise the vanished coun-
try regeneration in some misty and
remote future, there is no solid rea-
son for believing that Poland will
arise once more; even if it were pos
sible to believe such promises, their
realization would merely create new
trouble, new problems, new wars.
Something else has surprised the
world, namely, the slow motion of the
British and the French. They have
been at war with Germany since Sep
TENDER 3, and they have not yet
done anything about it. True, there
has been some fighting at the from
tier, but that appears to have been
largely in the nature of minor skir-
mishes without any real significance.
Even in England itself, the SLOW
ness of the proceedings has aroused
bitter criticism, for instance, in the
Manchester Guardian, which impa-
tiently shouts:
What are we waiting for? Didn't
the government tell us that we were
ready for this thing? Are we? If
so-why don't we fight?"
At the beginning of the week there
were hints that the French were
about to start an offensive against
the Germans, and there were bulle-
tins announcing the arrival of Brit
ish troops. Some additional fighting
was reported, but of such a nature
that it didn't change the general
situation one whit. In fact, it was
said that no real fighting could be
expected until some time in the
spring of 1910.
| No Peace!
Anyhow, the British say that they
want to carry on. Peace overtures
have been made, once more by Mus
solini, and have met with sharp re-
lection in London as well as Paris.
Now it can no longer be claimed that
Britain and France want to help Po-
land, for there is no Poland, so the
new slogan is that the two countries
are out to "crush Hitlerism'' and to
stop international lawlessness''-
words which more than vaguely are
reminiscent of similar slogans of
about twenty-five years ago, and
which resulted disastrously in the
Versailles peace treaty, one of the
principal roots of the evil flowers
which now are blossoming.
Assassination and Results.
At moment when there was some
fear that Roumania might become en-
tangled in the war, Adrian Calinescu,
the prime minister of the country,
was aSsaSSinated by members of the
nazist and fascist organization known
as the Iron Brigade, whose existence
and activities had been forbidden by
law
Revenge was swift and bloody. The
eight men who are alleged to have
perpetrated the murder were instantly
arrested and shot to death in one
of the streets of Bucharest, and dur
ing the next three days 800 other
members of the Iron Brigade were
likewise executed.
| King Carol did not want any nazi
group intriguing against his govern
ment; that was one thing; another
likely-was his desire to show the
world that he could manage affairs in
his own country and did not want
Hitler to step in on the pretext that
since the government could not main
tain order, it would be the duty of
Hitler to do so. That opportunity
was not given. Carol cleaned house,
himself.
| Lest We Forget
Tomorrow it will be exactly one
year since Germany, Italy, France
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