LANDS OVERSEAS MAJOR CAMPAIGN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 14 March 1939, Page 5

LANDS OVERSEAS

MAJOR CAMPAIGN

DEMANDS OF GERMANS MUST STAND TOGETHER “HAVE ONLY TO INSIST” ‘AS GOOD AS THE ENGLISH’ (Else. Tel. Copyright—Rnited Press Assn.) (Independent Cnlde Service.) (Reed. 'March 14, 9 a.m.) BERLIN, March 13. Dr. Ley, leader of the German Labour Front, speaking at Munich, said: “The Germans are still a race without space. They must stand together in order to break this cramped condition. “Forty million Englishmen rule 470,000,000 people. We are at least as good as the English and fate should give us the same task. “We have only to insist on our demands and we will get them. Despite all our efforts a nation, cramped as we are, is bound to fall a victim to Marxist teachings, even with the best social institutions.” '

GERMANY AND ITALY “COLONIAL GUILT LIE” LONDON, March 12. Little doubt exists in diplomatic circles that Germany and Italy are preparing to launch a major campaign for colonies, but whether it will take the form of a thunderbolt is not yet clear. It is learned from Berlin that Herr Hitler is making definite plans to regain the territory that Germany lost after the Great War, but apparently by peaceful stages. At first the force of the propaganda campaign will be increased, but parallel with it will be an insistence on a desire for a peaceful solution. This expressed desire for peace will be sharply contrasted with the “warmongering policies" of the western democracies. It will be contended that Germany’s honour is involved because of the “colonial guilt lie,” which must be expunged. Recognition of Right. The democracies will be requested publicly to proclaim Germany’s legal right to her lost colonies, and to recognise that her colonial rights are inextricably woven into the pattern of German economics and commerce. The culminating step will be a peremptory demand for redistribution. The German Propaganda Ministry is issuing maps emphasising the size and the richness, of the lost territory. In London it is reliably stated that Germany will insist on a settlement of the colonial problem before the talks with British industrialists. in Berlin shall have any effect. The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, will probably ask the other countries concerned to consider the matter in the near future.