Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1941-01-02
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
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During the spring and summer of
1889 the British government worked
energetically for an alliance with
Russia but was at that time too slow.
1t may be trying to catch up now.
Russo-Japanese Treaty.
Also in connection with Asia, Rus
STA was in the foreground of the
world news during the last few days.
Some years back then Foreign Com
missar Litvinov offered Japan a mu-
tual non-aggression treaty. Japan de-
clined the invitation, but recently
changed her mind and, herself, sug-
gested such treaty to Russia.
The Moscow government, however,
made heavy demands for certain i'm
portant concessions, notably in re-
gard to fishing rights along the ST.
berian coast, and Tokyo thought the
terms too stiff.
Now, reports have it that ia
pan either has broken off, or will
soon break off, negotiations along
this line on the ground that rus
STA is too hard to deal with.
Early this week it was learned that
the matter will not even come up for
debate in the japanese parliament
when it reconvenes on January 20;
it is possible that the government
will refer to it, and will permit no
questions to be asked.
Bombs Bursting in Air"
There was no actual armistice be-
tween Great Britain and Germany
during the Christmas holidays in the
sense that an agreement about a
truce had been reached. But the
remarkable f C was, nevertheless,
that no German bombs fell in Eng
land, no British bombs in Germany,
from the morning of December "a
until the morning of December 81.
London said nothing about it, and
Berlin vociferously insisted that there
was no truce.
In spite of that assertion, Ber-
lin charged, just the same, that
the British "brOke the truce
that is, the truce, which accord
ing to the Germans, had not ex-
iSted!
1t may be of minor Importance
and difficult to prove, anyhow-who
did the first bombing after Christmas
Probably it is true, as the Germans
say, that it was the British, for there
had been no report of renewed bomb
ings by the Germans when word
came that the Royal Air Force had
bombarded German cities.
The British did not confine
themselves to Germany proper;
they also let their bombs drop
on cities and ports of German
occupied parts of continental Eur
ope-the so-called invasion ports
one of them being Stavanger,
Norway.
There is still in English minds a
persistent belief that the Germans
may at almost any time try to land
troops on English soil, and to prevent
that emergency, the British are bomb
ing, whenever and wherever they
can, positions which may be of help
to the Germans in case they really
are about to begin an invasion of
England.
America, England, Germany.
Recently, the British have made
many appeals to the United States for
more ships, more bomber planes, more
money with which to pursue the
war
At the same time, the Hitler
controlled German press has in
dulged in vituperations against
the United States; this country,
according to the regimented edi-
tors of Germany, must reduce its
help to Great Britain to a mini
mum; if it doesn't, the conse-
quences may be disastrous! And
should the American Congress de-
eide to amend the johnson neu-
trality act so as to permit Ameri-
can ships to touch at Irish ports,
it would be Just too bad for the
United States! That is, accord
ing to the newspapers of which
Herr Hitler is the supreme editor
in-chief.
After President Roosevelt's Fire
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