GERMAN COLONIES
OPPOSITION TO RETURN OVERWHELMING POPULAR VOTE (Received February 3, 10.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. a The American and British Institutes of Public Opinion announce that polls in both countries show a popular opposition to the return of colonics to Germany. In the United States 17 per cent of those who voted were in favour of the return and 83 per cent were against it. In Britain 15 per cent favoured the colonies being returned and 85 per cent opposed it.
NEW FORM OF DEMAND EQUALITY WITH OTHERS LONDON, Feb. 2 The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic correspondent says ho foresees a change in the German campaign for colonies in the direction of discontinuing references to tlio "old colonies" and concentrating on a comprehensive demand for colonies equally valuable to those held by other European States.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23263, 4 February 1939, Page 15
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