GERMAN COLONIES
QUESTION OF RETURN
OUTSPOKEN COMMENTS
BY BRITISH MINISTER
(Br Hlaotrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) {Aui?tralia.i £ N.Z. Cable As<oeiation)
LONDON, 31st Dec
Mr Amery, Dominions (Secretary, in ii special interview ■ in the "Lokalanzeiger," Berlin, expressed beljef of the impossibility of the creation of a United States of Europe, worked on a similar basis to the British Empire, without a central government. Questioned whether he thought Germany's former colonies ought to he returned Mr Amery said: "Germany at the end of the war. renounced the colonies in favour of the Allies. Let ns leave it at that. If we begin to discuss the question there is no knowing where we will end. We want to take the end of the war as the starting point and go forward to an understanding among the nations of Europe. Germany does not need the colonies to assist in her recovery, and her pre-war trade with those colonies was insignificant. The colonies were not necessary from the viewpoint of prestige,. Austria-Hungary before the war had great prestige and no' colonies. Portugal's many colonies had not. given her any prestige."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 January 1927, Page 5
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