COLONIAL QUESTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22767, 29 June 1937, Page 9

COLONIAL QUESTION

GERMAN ' PERSISTENCE

NO DESIRE FOR WAR

(Received June 'JO, 12.30 a.m.) BERLIN, June '2B

"You may be sure that Germany will 'continue to bring up the colonial question until her urgent and legitimate desires are fulfilled," declared General Goering in opening the ninth congress of the Internatipnal Chambers of Commerce, which representatives of 40 nations, including Britain, are attending.

General Goering added: "The restoration of an adequate basis for our economic life and prosperity is another condition of our full .achievement of equality, which is the reason for Germany's gigantic rearmament." , The speaker instanced Germany's recent attitude "in the face of provocation from the Red Spanish forces," as proof of German pacifism. He added: "Indeed as far as it depends on Germany there will not be another war. The great work of reconstruction which Herr Hitler has inaugurated can be completed only in peace time."

IL DUCE ON HOLIDAY SITUATION NOW EASIER (Received June 29, 12.30 a.m.) ROME, June 28 ' Signor Mussolini is spending a holiday at Riccione, which is regarded as an indication that the European situation is easier.

IF PEACE IS BROKEN AMERICAN ATTITUDE WASHINGTON. June 27 One of the Assistant Secretaries of State, Mr. S. Welles, denies European reports that the United. States Government informed Germany and Italy through diplomatic channels that it. would impose the neutrality law if either broke the peace. Also, he denies that the Government assured Britain -and France of its moral support in such an event