Show weekly news analysis h I 1 russia returns I 1 to I 1 spotlight faces foes on two tuo borders I 1 by joseph josephw W lit la bine I 1 6 A I 1 isz 09 AO A I 1 I 1 as 1 ISS I 1 W Q I 1 I 1 BERING 0 IA I I 1 i i aass 11 1 0 O I 1 SEA I 1 1 i e I 1 CV a I 1 1 I ii V I 1 III I 1 i i i SEX I 1 I 1 I 1 qa I 1 I 1 I 1 ti i X X OF I 1 I 1 I 1 jap fishing fleet X e moves april 10 to i 6 1 m B forbidden fishing i i i ground escorted K K i I 1 X M by batile battleships ships 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 1 I 1 X tokyo rushes fresh p I 1 I 1 A troops to russian frontiers tiers anticipating outbreaks brea ks when fishing season opens I 1 I 1 4 I 1 i j RUSSIA VS JAPAN IN ASIA ON LAND alii AND SEA fish and an old grudge provide a crisis EDITORS NOTE when WAB opinions cpin toni a r expressed in these columns colum v s t hey are those ol of the news ans analyst lyst a aus d set act I 1 necessarily of the newspaper international since russia was ignored ignore dat at the munich confere conference ace last september the soviet has withdrawn to its shell apparently content to fight internal problems and let the rest of the world fight adolt adolf hitler this action was justified france britain italy and germany ignored moscow in settling the issue apparently russia was not wanted in europe and anyway japan was barking at her vulnerable asiatic door but necessity sometimes makes strange bedfellows bed fellows though communism looks far more like than democracy russian ger man interests clash on two vital points 1 hitler wants the russian ukraine avast a vast expanse of rich I 1 and fertile land which now gives russia most of its oil wheat meat and mineral 2 germanys germanas Germ anys ally in the vengeful anticommunist anti communist pact is japan I 1 and japan is dussias Rus sias most ancient and bitter enemy hence russia has eberg emerged e d on the international front once more as a direct aftermath of germanys germanas Germ anys czechoslovakian Czechoslovak lan seizure seii seizure ure huge mysterious of unknown strength the blundering nation whose army i collapsed amidst it its last E european u r 0 venture during the world g ald war wa r finds I 1 I 1 I 1 II 11 1 e 1 1 TS 11 11 1 1 s A a A t co 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 it 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 9 I 1 s 1 I 1 I 1 1 a I 1 1 1 I 1 f s edw I 1 11 r T 1 V 11 14 rk f I 1 0 CAROL AND GEORGE britaina Brit ains lore foresight sight was short itself threatened simultaneously on both east and west I 1 west czechoslovakian tall fall brought hitler bartway partway par tway to the ukraine but alien soil still stood as a barrier to cross the russian frontier german troops must pass through el either er rumania or poland the latter nations eions hostility to the reich has increased since aragues Pr agues c collapse because warsaw had good reason to fear germany might annex the free city of danzig and close the corridor which is polands bolands Po lands only outlet to the baltic or any other sea moreover agitation tor for german annexation of lithuanian seaboard town of memel and for possible creation ofa of a protectorate over lithuania itself would leave poland surrounded on three sides by germany and her satellites I 1 Discard discarding frig poland ss as a path to the ukraine hitler has turned to rumania which no not only offers a corri carrl dor to russia but many choice spoils besides the groundwork for this coup was laid last november atter king carol fearing made a desperate bargaining trip to london in search of british french fience trade support though wined and dined by bay king ing george see ee photo and other pirson personages ages of british royalty who a few years ago agg had ignored him as a scapegrace the rumanian king found london unwilling to play ball prime minister r neville chamberlain was too busy appeasing dictators hitler and mussolini to risk upsetting I 1 europea Europe cropes ur 1 diplomatic applecart with a trade agreement that would discriminate against the reich en route home carol signed an I 1 economic accord at berlin accepting tor for safe tys sake a nazi jord ship he disliked this was not noi placed into effect until the czech coup when carol found german troops po pounding un ding on his door today berlin controls more than half of Rumania Ru manias a exports wheat and oil and imports manufactured goods once in bucharest it is but a short hop to either the ukraine or suc such h balkan states as bulgaria and yugoslavia where the master of central europe has already made his strength felt though th ough at first happy that german penetration was going eastward instead of into belgium or france Eu ropes democracies have at last realized their error A month ago germany was strong militarily but impotent economically devoid of foreign exchange and short of food today with czechoslovakian big gold reserve with rumanian wheat and oil the reich is strong in all ways a far greater threat than the empire of 1914 for russia situation is more dangerous than last aut autumns with poland nipped out the reich would control the soviets entire western frontier gradually eating into the borderlands by undercover penetration it was not unexpected therefore that russia should follow britain and france in protesting the czech grab becoming even more alarmed over Ru manias economic collapse since the U S has also protested by diplomatic note and imposition of an additional 25 per cent tariff on german imports the red bearded soviet finds itself no longer isolated but drawn into virtual diplomatic comradeship with the three nations whose democratic political philosophies are farthest removed from its own east russo lap jap conflict da dates in modem history to the war which ended with the treaty of portsmouth in 1905 since thin then ambitious ja japan pan has jumped to the ast asiatic a t I 1 a mainland and penetrated man Manchu chukuro kuo and mongolia both of f which front on russian siberia for at least six years this clash of ct interests has occasioned casio ned spasmodic border tussles most of which went unreported until last summers Chanku feng hill bill incident the simple fact is that slow moving stubborn russians always were and always will be at odds odd 9 with japans attitude of self righteousness asia is not big enough for both last december 31 the fishing rights japan has enjoyed in siberian I 1 waters since 1905 expired russia refused to renew them and tokyo now plans to send its huge floating canneries into russian waters during early april protected by warships As the crisis approaches both governments are rushing troops to the siberian frontier where most oriental observers c confidently on fi predict a war must even eventually breakout break out significance Euro european pian and asiatic crises are related insofar as 1 japan and germany have a virtual military alliance and anda 2 russia is involved in both dis disputes moreover jap aggression the past year beir has followed amazingly close behind behin dEuro european dictator coups as when canton was captured after munich and hainan island was occupied after barcelona Dar celona fell thus jap italo ger man parallel action has already been evidenced with huge russia emerging as the unexpected focal point tense situ situation allon encircles the world involving more nations than ahan any period since the world wars heyday miscellany I 1 A new sub low priced sports car will be introduced oil on the american market this summer 0 the tomb Pharaoh of esou sen net egyptian ruler of about B C has been discovered by prof pierre montet of strasbourg university 0 theu the the U S army has asked congress gr ess to forbid west point graduates from marrying during the first three year of active service I 1 1 agriculture t time was when last price had c little effect on this years crop sin since ee AAA however american farmers have realized realize dithe the folly of heaping insult on injury by adding addina new surpluses to already eady swollen gra granaries narle lack of export market had and heavy production last year sent U S farm surpluses to a new high the expected result now cow verified by the department of agricultures agri cultures crop reporting board will bi be a general cut in this seasons production of most products most outstanding fact odthe survey Is that grain farmers will slash 17 per cent from their spring wheat planting yet total 1930 wheat acreage is expected to exceed the announced goal by nearly bushels total winter and spring wheat prospects are tor for acres official explanation for the d decline 4 1 efforts to conform with the soil conservation program 2 reaction to last years decline 3 adjustments to changing feed requirements necessitated bi by last years surpluses estimated 1939 crop omitted average indicated 1920 38 1938 1033 2931 corn au all 9 all spring wheat V ie wt 2351 1 1950 s duru durum m 3 other spring oats barley t ilia flaxseed X eed 2503 1096 2023 RIC rice e 1069 1008 grain sorghums sorg hums a all potatoes 1 I sweet potatoes and yams bams 1883 tobacco 1675 1627 1695 1693 beans dry edible I 1 1951 1753 1727 soybeans C cowpeas 1 2475 peanuts 1877 2183 2319 tame it hay V 55 17 46 mexico last year medicos cos president lazaro cardenas chased U S and british oil companies out of the c country and seized their properties A big enough problem in itself expropriation loomed still more important porta fit in the light of U S efforts to solidify the americas against foreign economic intervention meanwhile mexico made hay by selling its ill gotten oil to germany while pan american nerves neared the breaking point like other american nations which have tried bart barter er trade agreements with the he reich mexico soon discovered she was unable to use the manufactured items germany offered in lieu of cash seizing the opportunity victimized oil companies sent donald attorney and former brain truster to make peace with senor cardenas terms control of the properties should be returned to the companies long enough tor for them to break even on all past and present investments then the property would revert to mexico cardenas terms operative cooperative co mexican company operation of the oil properties with U S and british firms to invest new cash for their development but mexico would maintain complete control over the industry after two weeks of consultation brought no solution mr returned home promising to come back late in april hardly had he left however before president cardenas announced his own final terms before cheering workers mexico will keep the wells paying indemnification with oil taken from them I 1 people appointed to the U S supreme court post vacated by louis D brandeis securities and exchange commissioner william 0 douglas easterner whose western background balances the court geographically 0 declined by dr arthur compton nobel prize winning physicist presidency of ohio state university |