“Peaceful Return” Of German Colonies
LONDON, January 24,
“The return of the German colonies must be achieved peacefully,” states a set of instructions issued by the man Foreign Office’s colom'al political department for the guidance of those training in colonial policy. “The opening up of colonial raw material resources,” says the instructions, “is a question of life or death for Germany, which does not want colonies for mass colonisation.”
The instructions emphasise that the former German colonies must always be described as actual possessions, only temporarily under mandate by other Powers.
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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 7
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