RETURN OF GERMAN COLONIES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 34, 4 November 1937, Page 11

RETURN OF GERMAN COLONIES

Demand On New Grounds SUPPORT FROM ITALY AND JAPAN By Telegraph.—Press. Assn. —Copyright. London, November 2. The diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Herald” says that Herr Hitler will demand colonies on new grounds, supported by Italy and Japan as the “principal allied and associated Powers.” The German plan is that two of the four Powers which jointly took over the German colonies shall express a wish that the arrangement be revised and some of them, at any rate, returned to the former owners. REPLY TO MR. EDEN Italian Viewpoint Put Forward Rome, November 2. Regarded as having been directly inspired by the Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini, a statement issued by the official Italian news agency declares that Italy, to her discredit in the eyes of the British Foreign Secretary, has the treble guilt of having fought beside the Allies in the Great War, having achieved national unity and conquered an Empire in Africa by her own efforts and her own blood, and having said a word for justice on behalf of the German people. It is pointed out regarding Africa that what Italy obtained while England and France were sharing the immense German colonial empire were truly laughable compensations. The statement adds that, in the archives of’ the British Foreign Office Mr. Eden can find extremely numerous documents of work done by himself and the British Government to stop Fascist Italy's forward march. His arguments therefore are of no value whatsoever. The publicist Signor Virginio Gayaa points out that Italy took no colonies from Germany after the war, and adds that Signor Mussolini is now taking up the question only in the interests of general peace.

Referring in his Addrcss-in-Reply speech in the House of Commons to Italy’s championship of Germany's claim for African possessions, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, said: “I must declare plainly that we do not admit the right of any Government to call on us for a contribution when there is no evidence to show that that Government is prepared to make any contribution on its own account.”

GERMAN PRESS ATTACKS MR. EDEN Berlin, November 2. The newspapers are angrily attacking the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden. . . Big posters called the official wall newspaper of the National Socialist Party which appeared in factories and large offices this morning attacking Mr. Eden state that Germany will no longer put up with bad excuses.