Show weekly news analysis slovak crisis mars hoare plan for V U S inspired SIn peace parley by boseth W la fifine bine EDITORS NOTE when opinions ate re is 14 these columns they are r thou those ol 01 the sews news analyst and ad not 1 ol 01 I the jbv newspaper international since last autumns munich conference the U S has popped in and out from internationalism to isolation ti occasionally sticking its political neck into affairs where many people thought it had no business samples secretary of the interior harold ickes tirades against the nazis contrasted with congress reticence to approve U S arms sale to european democracies the apparent sum total of this vacal lating foreign policy has been confusion yet there is good evidence that U S pro democracy pressure has exerted enough international influence to swing the world from war to peace most definite U S old aid has been the sale of airplanes to france and britain allowing those nations to change their armies overnight from weak cowering units to potent forces which neither hitler nor mussolini dared trifle with but a more positive U S aid has been the moral support tendered france and britain via both direct statement and roundabout round about action not confirmed but well authenticated is tl the ie report that president roosevelt injected a sedative into jittery france and britain by advising those chancel chancell lories orles to resist any new rome berlin demands since foreign trade is an important weapon of the 1939 1039 model aggressor the U S inflicted its deepest wound in german aman italian ambitions by formulating in mu ula lating aing an important trade and credit pact with brazil largest and most important of the much coveted south american nations though many countries country Cs like argentina chile and peru have accepted totalitarian trade gestures the U S brazilian pact politely hints that it would not be wise for south american nations to become too entangled with europe moreover the pact gives brazil enough financial encouragement to make her tomorrows no I 1 south american nation whose example hor her neighbors will be wise to follow gist of the pact in return for bra cillan thawing out of frozen american ita n credits and resumption of payments on brazilian bonds held here the U S will place in credits at brazils disposal also I 1 malting making other efforts to stimulate the count rys industrial output lind and her trade with the tha U S how flow these developments have strengthened the european backbone is immediately apparent great britain has defied nationalist blockade of the loyalist coastline risking a major incident by sending two destroyers to rescue a british freighter which had been seized by generalissimo francisco francos warships britain has pledged her aid to france against mediterranean territorial demands by italy but most important london has regained her confidence to the point of making public recommendation men dation that Eu ropes five powers france britain italy germany and russia vow a five year 31 VIAR k W 6 MA kc SIR HOARE ile realized but nobody peace the proposal as voiced by home secretary sir samuel hoare suppose in the space of five years there were neither wars nor rumors of wars and suppose the peoples of europe were able abla to free themselves of the nightmares that haunt them and from tho the expenditures ex that beggar them imire here indeed is the greatest opportunity ever off offered ered to leaders of the world sir samuel explained that eu ropes big five would be blessed la in their efforts by the president of the united states but the washing ton that inspired his outburst was less eager to endorse it recalled was secretary of state cordell hulls statement 0 of february 13 to the effect that the time Is not yet ripe for disarmament talk IAl in tilling luns commented t the e plan was sf s vague it is not worth considering germany grumbled about the lack of tangible proposals and within 24 hours something else had happened to blow sir samuels idealistic plan to kingdom come czecho vs slovakia traditional bad blood between czechs czecho and has been hidden under the mantle of czechoslovakian damoc racy for 20 years last autumn when germany grabbed and humbled the prague government autonomy moves started in slovakia central province and ru thenia for far eastern province hungary and poland wanted to grab off slovakia or ruthenia or both thereby gaining a common frontier hitler objected because czechoslovakia was now his path to the east from which may some day start a pan ukraine movement recognizing in germany a common danger poland czechoslovakia and hungary have grawn more independent of late while hitler has speeded autonomy agitation in both slovakia and ruthenia Ruth enla now renamed ukraine finally becoming desperate and spunky prague purged pro nazi officials in ukraine following this a few days later by ousting slovakian Slova kias priest premier dr joseph tiso the allegation that dr tiso was consorting with berlin which turned out to be an obvious fact when ahe the premier began sending secret messages to adolt adolf hitler though the new czech crisis was apparently settled a few days later by appointment of moderate carl arr Z 0 j ill DR dit JOSEPH TISO agent ol of a new cause ce lehre aldor as slovak premier the terrific implications of german intervention were soon realized berlins press wept tor for the slovaks just as it wept tor for the austrians Aust lans rians and Sude tens last year like an earlier fuehrer named konrad henlein champion of the Sude tens dr tiso flew to germany for consultation while his aides made flery fiery pro nazi speeches finally on the first anniversary of Aus downfall germany ordered czechoslovakia sliced into three independent states bohemia slovakia and ukraine though each state was to decide tor for itself whether this inde dependence was desired there remained little doubt but that nazi pressure would bring a favorable do decision As a result der fuehrer cleared the way tor for his drive into the ukraine replacing one strong nation with three weak ones moreover since the retch reich now lords it over bohemia slovakia and car patho ukraine there Is no hope that poland or hungary will block the ukrainian drive by swallowing one of these states such developments made europe forget sir samuel doares Is peace plan but what europe could not forget is that both britain and france agreed to guarantee czecho slovakian slova kias klas new boundaries after the munich conference a guarantee which has now been ignored whereas but a few weeks ago london and paris claimed to have regained their strength and abandoned the lap appeasement pea policy it is now evident that no such thing has happened |