MENACE OF WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22424, 21 May 1936, Page 14

MENACE OF WAR

HITLER'S AMBITIONS RECOVERY OF COLONIES GERMANY'S ORDERED STEPS i [by telegraph—own correspondent! ! MASTERTON, Wednesday The view that as soon as the; time was opportune Germany would take steps to recover the possessions she lost as a result of the Great War was ex : pressed by Sir Herbert Hart, formerly - Administrator of Samoa, at a gathering of returned soldiers last evening. sS 1 Herbert will leave shortly for Egypt ; to take up an-appointment on the Im,. perial War Graves Commission. * "lb does seem extraordinary, said, "after what we have been through in the past, to see such wholesale preparations for war in Efitope. I have hopes that the League of Nations will - become a body that will be able to pre. . vent strife between nations. Obviously however, that time has not yet 00016."'' * More Dangerous than Mussolini

Mussolini, ho said, had got his hand* on Abyssinia, by force, and intended to hold it. Like all dictators, he had reached power by force and ruled by force. He would go from one conquest to another until he came to his end. Germany, under Hitler, was ten times more dangerous than Italy under Mussolini.

It was obvious to many in 1909, he said, that Germany was going to start ■ war as soon as the time was opportune. Germany's determination . for world domination made war inevitable.: Action taken by the British nation at that time had postponed war for five years. Germany's ambitions were the sole cause of the outbreak in 1914, but at the present time there were at least a dozen causes likely to start war. Military Occupation Germany was" not now seeking world domination. Her aim was to regain her former position among the foremost nations of the world, and she was taking well-ordered steps to attain her objective. She had got rid of armament# restrictions and her troops had occupied the Rhineland. When the time was opportune she would move into the Polish Corridor, and to the south-east. That was a definite certainty, and only a miracle could stop it, unless perhaps Hitler died an early death. . „ "As sure as the sun comes up in the morning and at the earliest possible moment Germany is going to try and regain her former territory,'.' Sir Herbert declared. 'He thought Germany might have made some move in that direction while the Abyssinian War was on, but apparently the time was not opportune, either from a financial or a military point of View. While there was no need to feel pessimistic about what might happen, he felt that everyone should face the possibility of a di»> turbance in Europe.