NAZI COLONIAL QUEST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 7

NAZI COLONIAL QUEST

MISSION TO AFRICA

NEW LINE ADOPTED

LONDON, March 2.

Desiring a first-hand account of conditions in Germany's former colonies, Herr Hitler is sending an exploratory mission to Africa to report on every aspect of colonial life, says the Daily Herald. He is personally supervising the selection of experts, whose headquarters will be either in Libya or Abyssinia. The mission is also regarded as a preliminary step to the reorganisation of the German Army for possible colonial purposes.

"Coming Planned Distribution"

General Rifcter von Epp, Governor of Bavaria, and head of the Nazi colonial organisation, in a speech to party officials at Wurzburg (Bavaria), reopened Germany's colonud campaign, which has been dormant for some weeks.

He took a new line by not referring specifically to Germany's pre-war colonies, but by demanding equality for Germany with other nations as a matter of principle. From this, observers infer that Gerimany's claims are no longer limited to her lost territories. "We demand, as one of the leading civilised nations of the world," said General von Epp, "a share in the coming planned distribution of world space, which is necessary for the future of a nation of 80,000,000 people." "Blatant Impudence" In an article in the Volkisohe Beobacbter, the German Propaganda Minister, Dr. Goebbels, refers repeatedly to colonial claims. "Herr Hitler on January 30," he says, "raised the Colonial question, but that did not cause nervousness, because it was generally known that Germanv wants her colonies back, and is unwilling to alter her claims.' Referring to the formation of the Brutish Colonial League, Dr. Goebbels says: "1 do not mind the league s political objections to returning the colonies, but its moral and human objections are blatant impudence. "The 'time when the world was divisible into 'haves' and 'have nots' has gone, and we do not intend to be permanently among the 'have nots.'"