GERMAN EXPANSION AIM

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 84, 9 April 1938, Page 9

GERMAN EXPANSION AIM

APPORTIONING WORLD ANEW

A FRANK SPEECH

(United Press Association—By Electric TeleRrnjrti—Copyright.) (Received April 9, noon.) LONDON, April 8. The German Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, in a speech at Nuremberg, said that German history could be summarised as a chain of lost opportunities which had enabled Britain to build up her Empire. He admitted the impossibility in the circumstances of her complaining of receiving too litLle. A nation must be active lest it retire empty-handed, he said. A rare moment arrived when the world was being redistributed, but Germany must proceed cleverly and without risk, as with the Rhineland and Austria. The Nuremberg correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" said that Dr. Goebbels's speech contained an extraordinarily frank explanation of German methods. He declared that Germany was biding her time and awaiting her best opportunities. She had occupied the Rhineland when France, Britain, and Italy were tearing each other's hair over Abyssinia. When the quarrel was really hot, she said "Now is our turn." "The colonial problem will be solved in the same manner," he declared, "but I cannot foretell when. These things must be done when the least possible risk is involved. Herr Hitler is now carefully awaiting the rare moment which is to come for the world to be apportioned anew and for Germany again to demand a place in the sun."