GERMANY’S DRIVE FOR COLONIES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 221, 15 June 1936, Page 9

GERMANY’S DRIVE FOR COLONIES

Vigorous Propaganda Work (Received June 14, 6.30 p.m.) London, June 13. Foreshadowing a vigorous campaign for the return of colonies, the new German Colonial League, which is a department of the Nazi organisation, is absorbing the existing German Colonial Society and launching a membership drive throughout Germany. Plans include exhibitions, lectures and propaganda in all German schools, also “colonial camps,” in which the objective will be to impress the people that colonies are indispensable to a great modern nation. The Colonial Society, which has worked for the encouragement of “colonial-mindedness” in Germany since the days of Bismarck, was a private body. Its absorption indicates how seriously colonial propaganda is now taken by the authorities. SOUTH-WEST AFRICA Population “Dragooned By Orders From Berlin” Cape Town, June 12.

The Judicial Commission which recommended that German South-West Africa should be incorporated in the Union of South Africa as it thought the present form of government a failure, considers that Nazi activities render the present Administration impossible. The population is dragooned by orders from Berlin, the Swastika is displacing the Union flag, and recalcitrant Germans are being reported to Berlin, which persecutes their families living in Germany.