COLONIES FOR GERMANY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21985, 21 June 1933, Page 7

COLONIES FOR GERMANY

DR HUGENBERG’S CLAIMS ASTONISHMENT EXPRESSED (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, June 19. Astonishment was expressed by the delegates to the World Conference at the remarkable memorandum presented by Dr Hugenberg regarding Germany’s claim to her former colonies. The memorandum has since been withdrawn, but not before it created generally a bad impression, ' The Times, describing it is an example of how . not to make helpful contributions, says the proposal was as inopportune as its genera! purport' was vague and purposeless. As to the argument that Germany would not be able to retain “-her old position as a payer of international obligations,” until she was given a colonial empire in Africa, The Times points out that before the war the German colonies had a total import and export trade with Germany of only one-half of 1 per cent, of the total German trade balance, and did not absorb more than 23,000 Germans as settlers, The Times asks: “ Are there many fewer Germans in Tanganyika, for instance, to-day, and is Germany placed at any particular disadvantage under the mandatory system, with its principle of the open door 1 ”