LORD ROTHERMERE URGES RETURN OF COLONIES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 March 1934, Page 5

LORD ROTHERMERE URGES RETURN OF COLONIES.

ELBOW ROOM FOR GERMANY. OUTLET FOR YOUNG MEN NEEDED Received Wednesday, 8.30 p.m. LONDON, March 20. Declaring that Germany must have elbow room, Lord Rothermere, in an article in the Daily Mail, asks: “Can we sit forever on the safety valve of her expanding population. When the war started Britain and her Allies proclaimed a policy of no annexations, but when it ended they annexed all the German colonies and denied Germany’s rights to have any, justifying this by a declaration that she was not civilised enough to be a colonial Power, thus depriving her of the sources of half her pre-war supplies and suppressing emigration under the German flag. “It is useless to assure her that we recognise her claims to equality, while retaining her colonies. Our material loss in returning Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroonsi would be insignificant compared with the value of such pledges of our goodwill. Germany needs a suitable outlet for v her splendid young men, formed under the discipline of the Hitler regime. Tanganyika is entirely fit for white farmers.

“We cannot expect a nation of he-men like the Germans to sit with folded arms under the provocations and stupidities of Versailles. When Germany has interests outside of Europe she is less likely to make trouble on the Continent. The sacrifice of 428,000 square miles of our colonial Empire of 2,000,000 square miles would be a small price to pay for distracting Germany from projects of revenge.’’