RACIAL PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 18, 21 July 1939, Page 9

RACIAL PROBLEMS

A NEW SOLUTION?

ACTION IN. TYROL

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS

(Erltisb Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, July 19.

The Marquess of Clydesdale asked in the House of Commons today whether, in view of the fact that the South Tyrol is the only place in Europe where frontier revision provides a simple solution of the racial problem but that Herr Hitler apparently prefers settling this problem by a scheme to remove the German population from their land,' steps will be taken to obtain detailed information regarding this scheme with a view to the application of similar principles in the case of other German demands.

The Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr. Butler, replied that Britain's representatives in Germany and Italy were reporting on developments in the plan dealing with the problem of the South Tyrol, of which full details were not yet available. Britain would bear in mind th£ possible applicability of these principles to other areas.

The Marquess of Clydesdale then asked whether, on the information available, the Foreign Secretary thought Herr Hitler would prefer war to settling his demands by - a scheme such as that operating- in the South Tyrol, and did he also think that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had initiated a new principle for solving racial problems by negotiation rather than by war; or, on the other hand, was he (the questioner) to understand that Herr Hitler, for the sake of expediency, had shown himself as treacherous to his own people as he was to Mr. Chamberlain at Munich?

Mr. Butler replied: "I think we can all draw conclusions from the actions taken."