GERMAN ANGER
Britain's ColonMi Policy
DESCRIBED AS "NAKED IMPERIALISM"
{CKITED rSBSS ASSOCIATION—COEmtGKT.) (Received February 16, 7.5 p.m.) BERLIN, February 14. Mr J. H. Thomas's statement on colonies in the House of Commons on February 12 has angered the press. The "Koelnisch Zeitung" claims that a secret, honest plebiscite of the natives would probably show a large majority in favour of return to German administration. The influential economic weekly, "Deutsch Volkswirt," described Mr Thomas's statement as "the worst service the British Government has done itself and the world for a long time." It adds: "It is a sign of naked imperialism at a time when the continued existence of the British Empire is assurable only by the maintenance of world peace. All might be saved by a small sacrifice." [Answering Sir Henry Page Croft in the House of Commons last Wednesday, Mr J. H. Thomas (Secretary for the Colonies) said that his Majesty's Government had not considered, and was not considering, the., handing over of any of the British colonies or territories held under mandate.]
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21709, 17 February 1936, Page 11
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