Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-12-19
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bastic utterances of its dictator, Mus
solini, is losing on all fronts.
War Against Greece.
She is losing, too, in Albania into
which country the Greeks have driven
the Italian armies; there is some very
effective and skilled strategy behind
the warfare of the Greeks-and, by
the way, you do not hear very much
about the men who are directing the
military operations of Greece; they
talk little but fight nightly; you
don't even know their names, the
reason probably being that it is an
entire people that rises in self-de-
fense-not merely a few generals.
In the course of but few days the
Greeks have captured the cities OF
Porto Edda, Delvino, Argirocastro and
Porto Palermo, and now, it seems, are
about to take Valona, too. They are,
in fact, constantly adding new leaves
to their laurels of victory. 1t is said
that Italian ships are anchored in
several Albanian harborS in readiness
for transporting defeated Italian SOL
diers back to their homeland, and,
of course, if they cannot go back,
they are most likely to be forced into
the unsentimentally cold waters of
the Adriatic sea where they may ex-
pect to find a death more merciful
than at the hands of the bitterly
aroused Greeks.
Altogether, the Italian participation
in Hitler's war against Great Britain
has been a colossal failure-until
now, anyhow.
Hitler Speech.
That may be the reason why Hit
Ter, speaking at Berlin a few days
ago, didn't have word to say about
his partner, Mussolini. He had all
kinds of dire threats against the
erich democracies' of the world, par
ticularly Great Britain and the United
States, and he adopted the pose of a
friend to labor, to the people but
didn't say word about his Italian
DrOtner-ln-arnS.
The rather obvious question
. arises: Does Hitler feel that the
defeats of his ally fOretell his
own?
For the situation is this, that while
Mussolini has had to face chastise-
ment on all the fronts where he has
fought during the present war, Hit
Ter has not won single victory ovel
the British empire. He has, it's true
occupied number of small countries
but as far as the empire of the Brit.
ish is concerned, it still remains in.
tact, although it is, undeniably, handi.
capped by the continental blockade
which Hitler has been able, SO far
to carry out.
In spite of all the bOmbings of
: English cities, it is still clear that
the situation, in regard to Great
! Britain, will be determined on the
9 ocean, and that is where the Brit
q ish are more vulnerable than at
= any other point.
# Now we are approaching Christ
e mas. There is no reason to suppos
r that there will be a minimizing O
|. hostilities because of the holidays
S War will go on until something
It definitely settled.
e New Treaty.
q Everything that happens in Europ
n nowadays has direct bearing on tn
great war. So does the treaty signe
IS the other day between Hungary an
= Yugo-Slavia. It was an agreemen
e of mutual friendship, an Obligation
I to consult in matters of concern t
both signatories. Ordinarily, trea
: ty of this kind would not attrac
= much attention, but the fact tina
Hungary a short time ago joined tn
O Axis alliance, and that Yugo-Slavi
r did not, may, in time, become a
e important one. You can't tell. AS
s matter of fact-you can't tell abou
= anything likely to happen in the fu
ture.