BRITAIN AND GERMANY

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1937, Page 8

BRITAIN AND GERMANY

QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.

[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]

RUGBY, February 15.

Asked in the Commons, whether to dispel the ill-founded German expectancy, he would’ state in unmistakeable terms that the British Government could not contemplate the cession to Nazi Germany of any territory whatsoever under British political control, Lord Cranborne replied: “As has been previously stated, His Majesty’s Government has not considered, and are not considering such transfer.” Another Commons question, on Press reports on the German claim to colonies, gave Lord Cranborne the opportunity to correct a misapprehension regarding the conversation last week between Lord Halifax and the German Ambassador. He pointed out that the Lord Privy Seal received Herr Ribbentrop, in the absence of Mr Eden, in the ordinary course of diplomatic routine, and the exchange of views, normal on such occasions, was in no sense a negotiation. ' The German Government have on no occasion informed the British Government that they are unable for whatever reason to agree to a conclusion of a new Western agreement, according to a Parliamentary answer by Lord Cranborne. EXPLORER’S OPINION. (Recd. February 16, 1 p.m.) BRISBANE, February 16. Captain A. J. Kenrick, R.N.R., who has been an explorer and traveller in New Guinea for fifteen years, favours the return to Germany of a portion of the mandated territory. He said that the union of China and Japan against the Western nations will come finally. It would be to Britain’s advantage to have Germany by her side in the Pacific. Morobe and the Islands should be retained through the League of Nations, but other parts of German New Guinea might well be handed back. Papua offered far greater prospects in minerals and' other resources.