“LIVING SPACE”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19978, 1 July 1939, Page 7

“LIVING SPACE”

GERMAN CLAIMS

OVER-POPULATION TALK QUERY BY HALIFAX RECENT IMMIGRATION NEEDS OF INDUSTRY 9 “ (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed 2.40 p.m, RUGBY. June 29. In his speech before the /'Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, said it was noteworthy that the claim to living space was being put forward at a moment when Germany had become an immigration country and was importing workers in large numbers from (Czechoslovakia, Holland-, andi Italy -to meet the needs of her industry 'and agriculture.

"How then, can Germany claim to be overpopulated?” ho asked. “Belgium and Holland, and to a less extent, our own islands, already have proved' that what is called overpopulation can be prevented by productive work.”

There was ample scope for extending to all nations the opportunity ot large economic -life with a I'l that that meant, which was implied in the German term lebenaraum (living space).

If the world 1 were organised on isueh lines, (neither -Germany -nor Italy need -fear for her own safety and no nation could fail to profit from the immense material benefits which the general application of science had brought within universal reach.