Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-30
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page II

HndIlOS no one KNOWS anything ABOUT
it.
But events and hesitations point
way to possibilities. For instance, it
seems clear that Hitler will be very
reluctant about trying an invasion
of English soil. While his army has
been idling, the intensity of the Brit
ish defense has grown to such an
extent that the nazi dictator may
consider it foolhardy to venture a
direct and major attack on the Brit
ish Isles. Many feel that he missed
his best chance last summer when
he forced the British across the
Channel from Dunkirk, and that he
is in far worse position for such
an offensive right now than he has
ever been.
But there are increasing indi-
cations that Great Britain may
take the bull by the horns and
try an invasion of the European
continent, now SO largely under
Hitler control.
When Mr.. Churchill a few days
ago could announce that the English
home army, fully equipped and ready
for a fray, comprises four million
men, he may have served notice on
the enemy that the Britishers might
try to cross the Channel.
Anyhow, it is becoming increas-
ingly clear that some other kind of
warfare than bombings will have
to be resorted to if the war is to end
during this or the next few years.
Bombs will not bring about termi-
nation of the conflict.
Rumanian Unrest.
What may happen in the Balkans
is one of the factors that will have
to be taken into consideration in any
view of the possible further develop
ments of the European war.
And no one can say what will hap
pen, but it is possible to extract
from events that already have taken
place, certain hints as to the future.
1t is, for instance, not at all inn
probable that the end of this month
or the beginning of February may
see the start of a German march
through Rumania and Bulgaria into
Greece-for the principal, the quite
obvious, purpose of minimizing the
failure of Mussolini's Balkan cam
paign.
And no doubt there is some hidden
connection between that possibility
and the so-called civil war in Ru-
mania last week.
There seems to have been an
outbreak of public indignation at
the fact that Germany now. prac-
tically, controls the Bucharest
government, and that the fascist
Iron Guard is altogether too close
to Hitler and MuSSOlini to suit
the patriotic elements among the
Rumanians.
There is, at this distance, and with
heavy censorship concealing the ac-
tual facts, no way of telling any
thing about the extent of the up
rising or the number of dead-esti-
mated to be between 1000 and 5000
nor is it possible to claim definitely
that the unrest was brought about
by the Germans themselves in order
to provide them with an excuse to
completely crush the Rumanian gov
eminent. But in London and else
where that suspicion has been voiced.
Hands Across the Sea.
Unabated, the discussion as to the
limits to which the United States
should go to help Great Britain pro-
ceeds in this country, and a great
deal of varying opinion finds utter
ance. It isn't that there is any real
objection to sell war supplies to
Britain, but there is fear that too
much authority may be delegated to
the President, and that too con-
spicuous support of the British gov
eminent may lead this country into
trouble. How well or i'll founded
such fears are, the future alone can
tell. But the arrival the other day
of Lord Halifax, new. British am
bassador, to the United States, served
to emphasize the strength of the
Anglo-American handshake across
the sea.
insists that Americans pay back what