GERMANY’S COLONIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 7

GERMANY’S COLONIES

HAND THEM BACK ROTHERMERE’S SUGGESTION LONDON, March 20. Declaring that Germany must have elbow loom, Lord Rothermere, in an article in the Daily Mail, asks: “Can we sit forever as a safety valve on her expanding-population?’’ Continuing, he says: —"When the war started, Britain and the Allies proclaimed a* policy of no annexations. When it ended they annexed all the German colonies, and denied Germany s rights to have any, justifying this by the’declaration that she was not civilised enough to be a colonial power, thus depriving her of .half her pre-war supnes, and suppressing emigration under the German flag. It is useless to assure her that we recognise her claims of equality while retaining her colonies. “Gur material loss in returning Tanganyika, Togoland, and the Cam eroons, would be insignificant compared with the value of such pledges of our goodwill. Germany needs a suitable out, let for her splendid young men formed under the discipline of the Hitler regime. Tanganyika is entirely fit for white, farmers. “We cannot expect a nation of he-men like the Germans to sit with folded a,rms under the provocations and stupidities of the Versailles Treaty. When Germany lias interests outside Europe she is likely to make trouble op the Continent. The sacrifice of 428,000 square ■niles of our colonial Empire of 2,000,000 square miles would bo a small price to pay for distracting Germany from her projects of revengp.”