Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-08-17

far better organized resistance than
would have faced him, had he gone
to war about the Sudetenland last
fall.
During the last 10 months Great
Britain and France have armed them
selves as never before; joined with
them are Poland, Roumania, Greece
and Turkey, and Russia is likely to
be ready for alignment at almost any
time. Herr Hitler would think deep
ly before he ventured defiance of such
a group, and that is the reason why
it is thought that he will try to reach
his Danzig goal through negotiation
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES only,
however, if necessary.
There was, while the Salzburg con-
versations were in progress, speech
delivered by Walther Won Brauchitsch,
head of the German general staff at
Dusseldorf; he assured his audience
that the Fuehrer would not sacrifice
German lives in frivolous man.
ner, and that, too, was taken to mean
that he will not go to war about
anything as relatively insignificant
as the Danzig ISSUE
Burckardt at Berchtesgaden.
When Ciano had returned to Rome,
Won Ribbentrop to Berlin, announce
ment was made that the League of
Nations high commissioner for DAN
zig, Swiss by the name of Burckardt,
also had been at Berchtesgaden to
see Hitler; whether he was there
simultaneously with the two foreign
ministers or alone, was not stated.
But after his return to Danzig from
'the Hitler Presence" he said that
he was rather disinclined to "draw
any blank check on the future" and
he added that mo sensible person is
in position to say that a general con-
flict will arise on the basis of the
Danzig problem" Concluding an in
terview, Burckhardt said that, from
his viewpoint, prophets are danger
GUS individuals, and predictions are
premature" but he made it quite
clear-neutral as he is-that there is
at this moment no reason for fearing
war on the Danzig account.
Military Men at Moscow.
Early this week the forty British
and French officers who left London
for Russia on August 5, arrived at
Leningrad, continuing their journey
by rail to Moscow; they had travelled
aboard the "City of Exeter" through
the Channel, across the North Sea,
down through the Danish waters and
the Baltic-just in order to avoid
touching German territory.
Almost Immediately after their ar
rival in Moscow the officers began
their series of conferences with Com
missar of War Voroshilov and his
staff in an effort to arrive at an
agreement concerning the military
clauses of the treaty of alliance be-
tween Soviet Russia and Great Brit
ain. If there is accord concerning
mutual military obligations, it seems
to be quite certain that the alliance
soon will become fact.
DllIdlIl dIlO Z dIlCc dill Sduy
have such an alliance; France and
Russia have one; what is needed is
the complete and unreserved align
ment of Russia with both Great Brit
ain and France.
Gives In.
British-Japanese negotiations at
Toyko reached a new climax the
other day when Great Britain, reluct-
antly, agreed to surrender to the
japanese military authorities in North
China four Chinese suspected of hav-
ing murdered a Chinese official in
japanese service. The suspects were
sheltered in the British section of
the international district of Tientsin
and England had refused to hand
them over to the Japanese on the
ground that the evidence against them
was too flimsy; upon that refusal
Japan began its siege of the British
section of Tientsin.
Great Britain's willingness to COM