Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-08-15


England will get very far with India
without making concessions now
rather than later.
Retreat.
Altogether, the British Asiatic po-
licies have suffered some pretty bad
setbacks recently. There is not only
that controversy with India; there is
also the matter of the British closing
of the road from Burma to Chung
king, China, at the behest of the
japanese. That has not been for
given in China where it is reasoned
that Great Britain, practically speak
ing, joined hands with the japanese
aggressors by cutting off what was
the last supply line hard-pressed
China possessed.
And now Great Britain has taken
one more step, for it has-again at
the insistent demand of Japan-with-
drawn all its troops from the inter-
national section of Shanghai as well
as from all of North China.
The result of this action is that
the only western powers militar-
lily represented in China now are
the United States and Italy. Great
Britain has suffered a diplomatic
defeat on the Asiatic frOnt-in
addition to that already registered
when the Burma road was closed.
There can be no doubt that Great
Britain has lost prestige in East
Asia, but whatever has been lost
there, appears to be about to be re-
gained in Europe.
Powerful Resistance.
For the British air forces are wag-
ing war on Germany. No longer i:
London sitting tight and pretty, wait
ing for the Hitler airmen to attack
No, the Royal Air Force goes after
the Germans, and British bomber:
have during the last few days, done
a lot of forceful work on German
soil.
This is important. For, it will
be recalled that during the pre-
ceding world war no enemy ac-
ton took place on German terri
tory. Now the British filters are
carrying the war home to the
Germans, and more than hun
dred harbOrS, airpOrtS, arsenals,
oil depots and munitiOn factories
have been more or less destroyed
by British prOjectiles.
At the time of this writing it reall,
looks as though Germany is on thu
defensive, and there also are indica
tons that Herr Hitler is getting COLI
feet. Week after week he has pro
claimed that now the hour of doom
had struck for England, but, al
though there were severe air attack
early in the week, the British Isle
still lie serene and unperturbed. TIL,
frequent German bombings do no
appear to have upset the morale o
the English people very much, ant
they serve only to make even strong
er the British will to defend the Isle
and the empire.
AS for that long-heralded ant
much-dreaded German Blitzkrieg at
tack-there is only this to report tina
it has not yet begun in all its fury
In Bad.
John Cudahy, United States am
bassador to Belgium, got in bad will
the British as well as with tn,
American administration few day
ago when in the course of an inter
view in London he said that unles
a great deal of help was forthcom
ing from the United States for Bel
GUM and other German-occupiet
countries, there would be an unpre
cedented famine next winter; he ais,
justified the action of King Leopol,
in surrendering Belgium to the Ger
mans, and thought that the behavio
of the German soldiers in Belgium
was better than would be that of tn,
United States soldiers under CORE
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