| Show weekly news nes ft evien british policy of expediency expedient y reverberated reverberates Rever berates around the globe L by JOSeP fla wo W la rine J international As proprietor of the worlds greatest empire great britain assumes a right and obligation to be ringmaster ot of international diplomacy if such a duty is incumbent during peace it becomes more pressing in time of stress the year 1938 is one of stress and in november of 1938 great britain is still the ringmaster but is jumping to the lash of her own whip caught in the backwash of her own fatal conservatism she is desperately making an expensive peace with dictators and dejac alike A roundup of these peace overtures with cause and effect with reverberations and repercussions that echo around the world looks something like the following GERMANY e november has become an international crisis month of more import in than september reason is that septembers czech german crisis had immediate effect on only a comparative handful of central europeans but in november germany r any has begun persecution of jews has moreover shown downright hostility toward all christian denominations in general and to the catholic denomination in particular ti this treatment has aroused worldwide world wide resentment against chancellor adolf hitler and his italian friend premier benito mus alus who uses similar tactics against world jewry it has also driven ghosts from the closet of britaina Brit ains prime minister neville chamberlain because he failed to fact a german guarantee again against st vish persecution when he negotiated the sellout treaty at munich this autumn though christian great britain is horrified by hillers Hit lers persecution it dares not slap germanys germanas Germ anys face not only are arc british banks planning 1 Z P t 1 ai e tf I 1 1 M 4 SOUTH PIROW he expressed britaina Brit ains sympathy loans to nazi controlled industries I 1 but london must also exhibit sympathy with germanys germanas Germ anys colonial demands in africa during the heat of jewish persecution berlin was visited by oswald pirow minister of defense and industry for the union buhion of south africa although colonial secretary malcolm maedonald macdonald has indicated great britain does not intend to surrender any ebl colonies onles mr visit can only mean that the union of south africa fears hitler and wishes to return germanys germanas Germ anys war lost colonies immediately BALKANS RUMANIA samong such southeastern european nations as rumania greece and turkey lies great britaina Brit ains last chance to resist german political and economic c expansion pan sion and also to maintain a vestige of international prestige A although social minded london once shunned manias Ru king carol for his love affair with magda lupescu daughter of a jewish junk dealer his recent visit to london with crown prince michael found engh lish royalty only too glad to court his favor this is because his friendship for great britain can stop hit lers southeastward bound steam roller if carol gets british export credit edit of about it if great britain agrees to buy rumanian oil and give carol a large loan ru mania will close its doors on gerla many any following this same policy london must increase her sway in other balkan states also encouraging turkey and rumania to return war won lands to bulgaria which stands alone outside the balkan entente and is easy prey for german economic expansion ITALY 0 even while king carols visit was marking an effort to stop dictators smartly dressed lord perth visited the italian foreign office in rome and presented his credentials to the king of italy and emperor of ethiopia this constituted formal british recognition of italis ethiopian conquest which is now denied I 1 b by only russia and the U S among great powers such recognition was a british capitulation and a few hours later lord perth returned to tue foreign office to initial the anglo italian friendship pact it w ans 4 j recalled that last spring prime min liter istir chamberlain promised he be would not invoke the pact until civil war had reached a settlement with a new rebel offensive just starting on the ebro that settlement has hardly been reached FRANCE 0 though friendly with great britain france has lost much bee because ause its foreign policy has been follow following ing that of london what is worse french finance could not bear the unprecedented expense of last septembers tem bers military preparations therefore the government has been crawling into its shell concerning itself more with domestic problems following its defeat at the treaty of munich its most pointed foreign gesture has been a recognition of italis ethiopian victory but new troubles are looming from italis direction following but a few hours on the heels of the anglo italian friendship accord having won british acceptance of its foreign policy italy has turned to britaina Brit ains onetime closest ally france for colonial demands the demands that france cede to italy the djibouti addis ababa railroad and the port of djibouti in french Soma liland and share with italy the control of the suez canal and administration of tunisia not only are such demands to france but she now sees the fallacy of trying to appease the insatiable hunger of either germany or italy RUSSIA 0 though the soviet paper hinves tia has urged closer russian cooperation with the U S for preservation of world peace and though dictator josef stalin is more interested te in his domestic development than in worldwide world wide expansion of communism no democracy can afford to disregard the fact that dussias Rus sias political sympathies are more closely alzin akin to those of germany and italy strengthened by the munich pact germany must eventually fight russia or make peace with her it ha has been authoritatively reported that chancellor hitler has sent three peace offers to dictator stalin the latest of which suggests a division of russian german spheres of interest this possibility carries dynamite tor for once moscow and berlin make peace there is nothing to prevent each of these tremendous powers from expanding at will UNITED STATES 0 0 at home the above international developments have brought three pertinent results 1 great britain has rushed to consummation her reciprocal trade agreement with the U S in which canada is also involved constituting a climax to secretary of state stat e cordell hulls reciprocal trade pro gram the agreement is an important effort to loosen and swell the flow of U S canadian british trade not voiced but tremendously evident is the fact that this treaty marks a new solidarity among democracies ds as opposed to dictatorial nations 2 U S indignation over ger banys jewish persecution has found expression in the plan put forth by joseph P kennedy U S ambassador to great britain its essence worldwide world wide operation cooperation co for removal of germanys germanas Germ anys jews to north and south america xa I 1 N 4 g 1 X f 1 AA ambassador KENNEDY german jews a solution and parts of the british french and netherlands empires great britain would arrange land for new settlements while U S jewish and private groups would provide money 3 rather than accept french and russian bids tor for leadership in world peace movements president roosevelt has invited 20 sister republics in ii the western hemisphere i to unite in a defense against european or asiatic aggression this new U S foreign policy is evidenced by 1 the presidents outspoken denunciation of germanys germanas Germ anys jewish persecution 2 his recall of hugh R wilson U S ambassador to germany 3 his announcement of a multi billion dollar defense program to protect not only the U S but all western hemisphere nations 4 U S interest in the pan american conference opening december 8 at lima peru and 5 an apparent effort in washington to steer away from european entanglements entangle ments other than those with 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