CABINET INCENSED BY COLONIES CLAIM

Southland Times, Issue 23140, 5 March 1937, Page 7

CABINET INCENSED BY COLONIES CLAIM

. (Received March 4, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. The political correspondent of the News Chronicle says that the speech about Germany’s forfeited colonies made at Leipzig by the Nazi Ambassador to London (Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop) has incensed the British Cabinet, and normal diplomatic exchanges with him are now practically impossible. "Hope is growing that appreciation abroad of the injustice done to Germany over her colonies will result in the mandatory Powers making the gesture we expect, and which Germany has the right to demand,” declared Herr von Ribbentr.op in an address to the Nazi Economic Council at the Leipzig Fair. In a speech which, it is believed, was made with the full understanding of Herr Hitler, Herr von Ribbentrop declared that it was in the interests of all countries to remove the world-wide unrest created by “this injustice." "The remedy can be found either by solving the problem and returning Germany’s colonies, or by Germany’s own strength,” said Herr von Ribbentrop. He denied that Germany would use colonies for strategic purposes.