GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21120, 22 March 1934, Page 9

GERMANY'S LOST COLONIES

♦ Their Restoration Urged "SAFETY VALVE" POPULATION OUTLET NEEDED {rsirrn rr.ess a = soitati;>>: tiv electric TELEOP. \F II —for Y I! I GUT. 1 (Received March 21. 8.30 p.m.) ■ LONDON. March 20. Declaring that Germany must have elbow room. Lord Rothermere. in an article in the "Daily Mail," asks: "Can we sit for ever on the tafety valve of her expanding population? '■When the war started Great Britain and the Allies proclaimed a policy of 'no annexations'; when it ended they annexed all the German colonies and denied Germany's rights to have any, justifying this by the declaration that she was not ; civilised enough to be a colonial ; power, and thus depriving her of ' the sources of half her pre-war tupplies and suppressing emigration under the German flag. "It is useless to assure her that we recognise her claims to equality I while retaining her colonies. Our material loss in returning Tanganyika, Togoland, and the Cameroons would be insignificant compared with the value of such pledges of our goodwill. Germany needs a suitable outlet for her splendid young men formed under the discipline of the Hitler regime, and Tanganyika is entirely fit for white i farmers. i "We cannot expect a nation of j 'he-men' like the Germans to sit ; with folded arms under the provocations and stupidities of Yer- ; sailles. When Germany has inter- , ests outside Europe she is less likely ! to make trouble on the Continent. The sacrifice of 428.000 square miles of our colonial Empire of 2.000,000 square miles would be a small price to pay for distracting Germany \ irom projects of revenge." ;