NO DANEGELD FOR GERMANY
“ Because Germany has succeeded by strong measures in embracing Germanic peoples under the rule of the Reich,” said Sir Henry Page Croft, M.P., in a recent speech, “ this is no reason why we should contemplate paying her Danegeld, or handing her territories which in her hands would prove a strategic menace to the British Empire and the peace of the world. On the contrary, the very principle which concedes that people of German race, such as the Sudetens, should be included, if they wish, in the Reich, must deny any such right to coerce native or European peoples in the colonies into the Germanic system against their wish. I desire German friendship as essential if disarmament is ever to begin, and I believe it is possible, thanks to the wisdom of the Prime Minister, but no such friendship can be bought by sacrificing vital British interests or by failing in our trust to natives tvho have had the specific pledge of our protection.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23693, 28 December 1938, Page 10
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