LOST COLONIES

Northern Advocate, 22 March 1934, Page 5

LOST COLONIES

GERMANY’S NEEDS VISCOUNT ROTHERMERE’S PLEA IN FAVOUR OF RESTORATION. “SMALL PRICE TO PAY.”

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copj-right.) (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 20. Declaring that Germany must have elbow room, Viscount Eothermero, in an article in the “Daily Mail,” asks: “Can we ait forever on the safety valve of Germany’s expanding population?” “When the war started Britain and the Allies proclaimed a policy of no annexation. When it ended they annexed all the German ; colonies and denied Germany’s right to have any, justifying this by the declaration that she was not civilised enough to bo a colonial power. Thus they deprived her of, the sources of half her war supplies and suppressed emigration under the German flag. It was useless to assure her that we recognised her claims to, equality while we retain her colonies. r.. ' ‘ / , " ■ • ' “Our material loss through returning Tanganyika, Togoland and the Cameroons to Germany would be insignificant compared with the value of such pledges of our good will. Germany needs suitable outlet for her splendid body of young men, formed under. the discipline of the Hitler jegime. . “Tanganyika is entirely fit for white farmers. We cannot expect a nation of lie-men like the Germans to sit with folded arms under the provocations and stupidities of the Treaty of Versailles. ‘ ‘ When Germany has interests outside Europe she will be 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.'’