Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-11-16
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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the effect that there could be no
peace until Austria, Czechoslovakia
and Poland had been restored.
And in behalf of Hitler an ambas-
sador simply reported that nothing
would be dearer to the German heart
than peace, but.
In short, the three belligerents
want peace, sure enough, but on their
own terms.
Dutch Fear.
One reason for the Netherlands
fear of German invasion was the
known fact that Hitler has long de-
sired some of the Friesian islands
for air basis purposes, the easier to
reach England; another was a minor
border incident apparently provoked
by Germany in order to provide
preteXt for an invasion of Holland,
and third was the fact that German
troops now are being massed along
the Dutch frontiers.
Under these circumstances, the for
eign ministers of the Netherlands and
Belgium met Sunday and agreed
that should Holland be attacked, Bel
GUM would consider herself at
tackled, too, and would not hesitate
to open her frontiers to the French
and the British. In other words, the
two countries would face whatever
may come, as a unit. Almost i'm
mediately thereafter, reports were
current to the effect that the tension
had lessened, but that the two coun-
tries were adjusting themselves to
meet any emergency.
Munich Explosion.
In an indirect way the explosion
at Munich few days ago might
have been considered peace attempt,
for had it succeeded, as it evidently
had been planned to succeed, nearly
all of the leading men of the German
government would have been killed,
and Britain and France, now averse
to any dealings with Hitler, would
have had the chance of negotiating
with new German government.
1t did not succeed.
Each year on a certain date in
November Hitler and number of his
old comrades meet at a beer cellar
in Munich to commemorate the an
niversary of the first-and unsuc-
cessful-coup of what is now known
as the MISUNDERSTANDING party, and
this year the sixteenth anniversary
was celebrated. Hitler had spoken
bit ahead of the originally sched-
uled hour-and had left for the rail-
way station, also bit ahead of sched-
ule. Just few minutes after his
departure a terrific explosion shook
the Buergerbrau beer cellar, the CELL
ing fell down, the balcony collapsed,
and seven persons were killed, more
than sixty injured.
Hitler and the other party leaders
were safely seating themselves in a
train compartment at the moment
of the explosion.
Who Did 1t?
Even before investigations had be-
gun, the German press and radio
announced that the culprits had been
| instigated to cause the explosion by
the British or by the Jews No one
in particular was specified, but these
two groups were held morally re-
sponsible" Before the investigation!
Preliminary examination of the
premises revealed-what was ex-
pected to be revealed-pieces of a
time bomb said officially to be of a
foreign make, and, unofficially in the
press, to be of English make.
A reward of $36O,OOO was posted
for anyone giving information lead
ing to the capture and conviction of
the guilty parties. Nothing cheap
about Adolf Hitler!
| While no one doubts that he had
been singled out as the principal vic
tim, many sources of information
venture the guess that the explo-
sion was not caused by Britishers or
Jews, but by members of dissolved
of the nazi party itself. That is
mere conjecture, but the fact that the
possibility pops up simultaneously
in ever so many places makes it in
teresting enough to record.
All Over!
For more than a month negoti-
ations have been in progress at Mos
cow between a Finnish delegation
and members of the Russian Soviet
government for the reason that Rus
STA insisted on obtaining from Fin
land certain islands and other terri
tories on which to build air ports and
establish naval bases. The Firms
have yielded as far as they felt that
they could yield, but the other day
they had retreated to point beyond
which they refused to move. The
result was that the conferences broke
down, the Firms returned to their
homeland, and the Russian press be-
gan violent attack on the Finnish
aggressors" whose policy actually
threatened the existence of the Soviet
republics! Tiny Finland menacing
giant Russia
1t is said that there is a prospect
of resuming negotiations, but it is
at best very dim.