Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1938 — Page 4
Senators Doubt Usefulness
France Gets No Answer ~ From Hitler on Vital Italian Issue.
Of New ‘No War’ Treaties; New Troops Sent to Tunis
von Ribbontrop and M. Bonnet talked to each other frankly on their own Governments’ policies. For instance, it was reported that Herr von Ribbontrop spoke with particular frankness as regards
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P)— Pwo of the most influential spokesmen on foreign relations in Con- _ gress—Senators Pittman (D. Nev.)
“gnd Borah (R. Ida.), chairman and “dean, respectively, of the Senate
SPoreign Relations Committee—expressed disbelief today in the value of Europe’s new “no war” treaties. ~~ Other members of the committee shared their cynicism, notably Senaor King (D. Utah), who assailed = rman insincerity.” Senator . "Borah described the agreements as “wexpressions of a day.” * Skeptical evaluation of the new ‘agreements between France and Germany and between Great Britfin and Germany to use pacific iMearis for settlement of disputes Between those respective countries was based on previously broken treaties. The British agreement was signed at Munich in September; #the Franco-German Agreement this fweek in Paris. %0:¢A treaty at this time seems to be “put the expression of a day,” SenaA8r Borah said. : -««“Bthiopia was protected by ‘streaties and betrayed alike by the democracies and the dictators who were signers of the treaties. The .same was true of Manchuria and ~ sthe same was peculiarly true of ~ «Czechoslovakia.”
sic U. 8. Cannot Take Chance’ *C genator Pittman saw “great dif-
Germany's hatred of comunism, and that his statement amounted to an attack on Russia, France’s ally. It was reported also that he said incidentally that if the powers ever got around to discussing the '‘concession to Italy of a share in control of the Suez Canal, Germany wanted to get in, too,
Students Reply to Italy
The Italian-French situation continued to be an angry one: A thousand students paraded the
streets of Toulouse last night, demanding that France acquire Italian
Sicily, Sardinia and Tripoli—a retort to the Italian cries for French territory. It was necessary to call police reserves to keep the students from demonstrating in front of the Italian consulate. Alsatian students paraded similar-
ly at Strasbourg, up near the Ger-
man frontier, singing the Marseillaise and shouting “We want Sardinia! = We want .8icily!” Police dispersed the students. Premier Daladier was warned by powerful French conservatives in Parliament -today that he must “choose between us and the Socialists and Communists.” The aggressive attitude of the Right Wing parties in the Chamber of Deputies was emphasized as Parliament opened by a demand by Deputy Rene Dommange, Nationalist, that the Government dissolve the Communist party and take ace tion against the General Federation
Mculty” in arousing any optimism |of Labor for sponsoring. the unsuc- - Ry country over the antiwar|cessful general strike last Wednes-
‘agreements. He was of the opinion ‘that the French-German treaty “is No stronger than the Kellogg-Briand pact.”
#7“As far as the United States is ‘Poncerned,” Pittman said, “it cann6t afford to take a chance upon any bare statements that countries
ost casual verbal assurances.” Senator King, expressing his I more candidly than either ator Borah or Senator Pittman, d that the anti-war pacts signed ¥ Germany were “scraps, of paper ot worth the paper they are tten on.” Reports from the Tunisian
day.
French Reinforce
Guards at Tunis
TUNIS, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—France
rushed troops and mobile guard reinforcements here from Algeria today as disorderly demonstrations in-. creased tension between the French
and Italian populations in Tunisia, The reinforcements were described
as a precautionary measure‘ to prevent the demonstrators—encouraged by plans for a great’ Arab demonstration against Italy—from getting out of hand. Two hundred French soldiers and 200 native cavalrymen Lib- guarded the Troops were at all strategic points
Italian Consulate.
border said that the frontier in the city.
nes were closed to all civilians and at Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor neral of Libya, had completed nsive troop movements. Nearly 250,000 Italian and French oops, it was estimated, now face bach other across the desert border.
ibbentrop Leaves Paris; itler Reply Lacking
PARIS, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—Joachim yon Ribbentrop, German Foreigh Minister, left for Berlin today to - ¥eport to Fuehrer Hitler on his talks svith Foreign Minister Georges Bonfiet on French-German relations pnd the European . diplomatic situa-
T was vepolied that Herr Hitler tended to summon Herr von Ribentrop and high Nazi Party and Army leaders to Munich at once to study the situation as to what Germany would do if Italian claims as egards Tunis provoked a Mediterfanean conflict.
Mentioned as delegates to attend].
fhe conference were Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, -Air A ter; Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda; Heinrich 3 ler, Gestapo Chief, and Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the high command of the armed forces,
Nazi Heavily Guarded
Thousands of policemen guarded Herr von Ribbentrop as he and his ids boarded two special cars at the Invalides Station near the Foreign Dffice. The cars were taken by a ndabout route to the suburbs, to 2 attached to the North. Express or Berlin. Foreign Minister Bonnet bade Herr von Ribbentrop a cordial farevell at the station. ~~ ¢ The situation which developed as . the result of anti-French agitation, llowing the signing of a Géermanench antiwar declaration, was at France sought a specific stateent from Germany on the Italian tuation. '
: Assurance Asked
'£ M. Bonnet asked bluntly for a . declaration whether Germany would would not fight alongside Italy if conflict ever was precipitated be- ~ gause of a French refusal to sure HH, gender Tunis, Corsica, Nice or Savoy. 2 Herr Von Ribbentrop was natury. unable to answer such a mopentous question... He submitted he question to Herr Hitler. No
ply came, and this remained to.
e clarified. Al reports indicated that Herr
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French war veterans and Corsi-
cans clashed with police this afternoon as they were turned away from Italian business houses after riounted police - student demonstration against Italy.
had curbed a
The French Resident General expressed regret to the Italian Consul
General that demonstrators had thrown blue and French colors—on the Italian consulate and a picture of King Victor Emanuel] in the consulate.
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Duce to Make Demand Official, Gayda Says
ROME, Dec. 8 (U. P.).—The Italian Government will secon give offi-
cial support to Fascist demonstrators demanding concessions from France,
the authoritative Giornale d’Italia
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Italy’s military budget had been increased by $64,451,000, or about 20] per cent. Italy's aspirations in the Mediterranean area are “just and essential to Italy’s life” and will soon be officially announced by the Government, the newspaper's editor Virginio 'Gayda, close friend of Premier Mussolini, wrote, Sig. Gayda also said that Italy’s aspirations will also receive the “solid” support of Nazi Germany. He denied reports, that Germany had sought to get the Italian Government to tone down demonstra. tions.’
Italy Masses Troops
Near French Frontier
“TOULOUSE, France, Dec. € (U. P.) —Italy is massing troops in the Pyrenees frontier region of Spain, reports reaching here today said. "It was ‘believed here that the movement presages a new major drive by the Rebels, with Italian aid, in a final effort to. overwhelm the Loyalists. - (A Barcelona dispatch said the Commissar General of the Loyalist Army had ordered all commissars awaiting assignment to report immediately and urgently to headquarters, indicating the Government’s expectation of a. Rebel offensive.)
British to Press Competition With Nazis
LONDON, Dec. 8 (U. P.). — The British Cabinet was understood today to have approved a far-reach-ing credit plan designed to enable British exporters to meet intensified foreign competition. Nazi Germany recently has become Britain's most formidable trade worry. The project would give British traders credit guarantees enabling them to assume large trade risks which at present they seldom undertake,
Nazis Disappointed by British. Colony Stand ‘BERLIN, Dec. 8 (U. P.) ~Germany’s - first aircraft carrier was launched at Kiel today, and cliristened Graf Zeppelin, as Nazis blamed “machinations of international Jewry” for a British Go’ernment declaration, backed up by a Parliamentary ' vote, against sur-
render of colonies to Germany. The United States Embassy mean-
eign” Office today asking assurance that © Monday's economic decrees against the Jews would not affect American Jews, The ship was christened by Countess Brandenstein-Zeppelin, only daughter of the late Count Zeppelin who developed the Zeppelin dirigible.® Feuhrer Hitler, - Army and Navy leaders, and high Nazi officials attended the christening among thousands of spectators. The speech of Malcolm MacDonald, Colonial Minister, yesterday against arbitrary surrender of colonies was called in" Foreign Office- quarters here a surrender to popular sentiment in view of recent anti - German agitation throughout the world and particularly in British Dominions.
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tary of State Sumner Welles, Ambassador to Germany Hugh Wilson, Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, In addition, Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, will return to the United States for Christmas and an indefinite stay thereafter, Recent developments, it was said by one high official, have resulted in one of the most complicated diplomatic and political situations in recent’ history, with the totalitarian powers, at present, apparently holding the upper hand. In that light, the United States may have been left no alternative, it was said, but to build a steel ring around her own sphere and avoid risking being caught in the European undercurrents. Meanwhile, former Undersecretary of State W. R. Castle and ranking official of the Republican National Committee, in an address before the Inter-American Center of George Washington University, attacked Mr. Roosevelt’s proposal to defend the entire: Western Hemisphere, He said there was no real danger of military aggression against Latin America, and warned that any attempt by the American delegation to the Pan-American Conference meeting at Lima, Peru, to stress continental defense “cannot lead to permanent understanding” between the American republics,
Plan for American League Is Dropped
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 8 (U. P)— Latin American delegates to the Eighth ® Pan-American Conference began falling in line today with a program calling for continental solidarity against foreign aggression. With all preconference developments indicating an .unwritten ap-
| proval of President Roosevelt's pro-
Stam for. unity against foreign ession, the Dominican delega-
beg announced abandonment of a
project for forming an ‘American League of Nations.- “The project had been vigorously oposed by the larger nations and threatened to cause bitter controversy. The announcement said the plan, which was also suported by Colombia, had ‘been dropped in the interest of continental solidarity. It was generally believed that U. S. Secretary of tSate Hull would emphasize the freedom of American states as contrasted to totalitarian States of Europe in his adrdess to dhe delegatés.
Secretary Hull was expected to address the conference Saturday afternoon, outlining President. Roosevelt's hopes for continental solidarity among the 21 American republics. It was believed that Mr. Hull would not speak in detail regarding any plans for continental defense, but would lay the basis for defense co-operation by. emphasizing the danger to American nations in the expansionist 'p: nations. ; President Benavides of Peru is to
welcome delegates to the conference at the formal opening tomorrow.
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Drive io Retake Canton; Russo-Jap Rift Grows
U. S. and Britain Talk of East Asta. Sonsequently {ie Pease
Secretly With Tokyo or seis pul her side 2 De fie On China Policy.
through the official Tass Agency, a statement which Foreign Commissar Maxim Litiviriov made Nov. 25 to Japanese Ambassador Shigenori
CHUNGKING, China, Dec. 8 (U.
{the talks today. A Foreign Office source said extraterritoriality was {not discussed, tha ferences were informal and would be continued until a basis for future action had been reached.
P.).—Chinese military officials today announced the opening ‘of a
Province in an effort to recapture Canton.
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general offensive -in Kwangtung ment was published because Japanhese newspapers had tried in recent days to misrepresent the course The Chinese dispatches said that |of negotiations.
It was explained that the state-
M. Litvinov began by citing Jap-
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ams of European|
Clark Grew and Sir Robert Craigie, the United ‘States and British Ambassadors, held long separate conferences with Toreign Minister Hachiro Arita today on Japan's policy toward China and the interests of foreign powers in China. The conferences were a continuation of talks held last month in an effort to clarify a situation which; has caused many vigorous American and British protests to Japan—protests which have resulted in the
about 600,000 Chinese troops were participating. anese references to the Portsmouth U. S. Ambassador Nelson Johnson Treaty, negotiated after the Ruswill depart Monday for Washing-|sian-Japanese War. The Treaty ton to report to President Roose-|provided that Russia and Japan velt and Secretary of State Hull on {should negotiate a fisheries ‘agreethe China situation. & ment. i: ; . 3 “In recent Jes Whenever the 8 shi : apanese Em as mentioned Dispute Over Fishing the Portsmouth Treaty, the Com- : ¥ ni missariat for Foreign -Affa has Rights Grows Serious pointed Out to it the violation of yo - |the Portsmouth Treaty by the JapMOSCOW, Dee: 3 w- P) Tr anese military occupation of Manous dispute has developed churia, where Japan undertook to Russia and Japan over fisheries have no troops besides railroad rights, the Foreign. Office disclosed guards whose number was not to today. exceed 24 men to each mile of line,” Leases to Japan for fisheries off {said M. Litvinov. the Russian Pacific Coast’ expire| «Ope cannot regard as tolerable a Dec. 31. Despite angry Japanese situation in which the Japanese demands, Russia has refused to re-|Government, while violating its own new them, it was disclosed, until|undertakings as regards Russia, Japan makes good a defaulted pay-|would insist not only on the obment by the Manchukuan Govern-|gervance by Russia of its undertakment for Russia’s share of thelings but even on satisfaction of Chinese Eastern Rallroad in Man-|japanese demands exceeding the chukuo. However, Russia has agreed |limits of these undertakings. to extend the leases pending Beg. tiation, but in doing so has tol a 4: Japan that 40 of 380 districts in U.S. and British Envoys which - Japanese were permitted to : fish will be closed for strategic and Confer With Japanese : other reasons. ; The fishing rights are of tremendous importance to Japan. It was. indicated, however, that Russia would decline to make new, long term leases so long as relations remained in their: present troubled state, (It was announced at Tokyo Tuesday that Japan had forwarded a sharp demand to Russia to conclude a new fisheries agreement.
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