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Show THAT SARAJFA'O INCIDENT One fine afternoon back in 1913 an obscure prince was sho" in the equally obscure city of Sarajevo. To most of the world the event simply meant one more scarehead and nothing more. Then armies began mobilizing'. Lights burned late in chancellories. The! x,;iish navy set lout for maneuvers several weeks ahead of the normal times. And the greatest war in history was underway, i Matters are not especially different in Kurope now. Hitler'.- j withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations and the ctis- armament conference, has sent the greatest scare since thost i 1913 days through premiers and emperors, congresses and parlia j meats. The Hitler position is that the Versailles treaty is un-j bearable that the refusal to meet Germany on an equal basir so far as aimaments, especially, are concerned, thrusts the blam.: onto the other powers and that whatever happens will be thei: fau'.t. Positions of the other powers is more vague than that, &m f more confused. But they definitely fear Germany. Theoreticall;. she has no army, save a small Reichswehr made up of picked mer in for long terms. Practically, she has a great army, consistim-of consistim-of Hitler's brown shirts, which, under command of schooler. Reichswehr officers, is powerful indeed. Her great lack is the j weapons of offense artillery, tanks, planes. i Final decision may be left to France, which has most a', j stake is. most afraid. Many European statesmen believe it i time to declare a preventative war on Gemiany. crush her ab- j solutely and unseat Hitler, before she has time to prepare Smller countries are alarmed barricades are rising on the Swiss t frontier, and her small, but first-class army received increased appropriations, went into harsh training. There is a link of nations around Germany of which but one, France, is great the others, however, by cumulative action, could make it very unpleasant un-pleasant for Hitler. So far as the Utiited States is concerned, these events are of only economic importance. Roosevelt policy will doubtless be to keep hands off -even in case of war, to pursue complete and dis-1 passionate neutrality. It's Europe's affair and the fires are I burning faster daily. ) rt I |