Fears of Strife Grip World On Advent of New Year (Continued from Page One) with armies and bombing air squadrons. The fight goes on, Spain is in the eighteenth month of civil strife as bloody and bitter as when it began. Trouble Spots Many Trouble spots are many. Palestine is under a close approach to martial law to quell the long struggle of Jews and Arabs. Egypt is emerging from intermittent riots under young King Farouk, who wants to quash the nationalist blue shirts of the opposition. Russia is busy with a blood purge: There is a list of about 1500 who have disappeared, some shot and others jailed. France is torn with strikes, politics and plots as she steps up her war machine to be stronger than Germany. Italy got an early start in arming and tested her strength in the hardships of Ethiopia. Any day Mussolini can swing a million men into line with quite a few millions in reserve. Rumania is off to a quick start in the New Year with regulations to subdue or eliminate the Jews, much like Germany but so far without violence. The Balkans and the Danubian powers, all southern Europe from Turkey to Switzerland and between Germany, and Italy, are in slow ferment. Austria wonders if Germany will absorb her. Czecho Slovakia fears Hitler will seek to incorporate the 3,000,000 Germans on the northern edge. Hungary wants more arms in that hotbed of trouble and she wants back some of her old territory. Jugoslavia is anxious lest Germany expand and make her a little nation without friends. Special Danger Points Special danger points are the growing hostility between Russia and Japan and Frances alarm at German expansion and growing power. France thinks, like many other nations and people, that once Germany has the strength she seeks she may use that strength. Great Britain is worried at the German demand her old colonies be returned. She is troubled also at the Japanese advance into China with the threat to British colonies in the Far East. So also is France with her Indo China on the southern edge of China. Where there yet is no war there is fear of war.