FORMAL DEMAND FOR COLONIES
Hitler Expected To Make Claims FRENCH OPPOSITION TO MANDATES REVISION (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received November 1, 9.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 1. Herr Hitler is shortly expected to make a formal demand to the Powers for the return of Germany’s former colonies before a specially summoned session of the Reichstag. This, according to the Berlin correspondent of The Times, is the meaning of a cryptic reference to “impending action” by Herr Hitler in a speech at Munich on Friday by General von Epp, head of the Nazi Colonial and Political Office. “We must jointly prepare a legal basis for the impending action of the Fuhrer, which will provide a happy solution of our colonial problem,” said General von Epp. Germany’s claim to colonies was rejected in a declaration of policy issued at the close of the congress of the French Radical-Socialist Party, which is the strongest in the French Parliament. “It is inconceivable and useless,” says the declaration, “to accept even hypotheses of a redistribution of colonial mandates.” Nevertheless the party does not refuse to envisage recognition of equal access to raw materials by all nations. “It would be an honour for France to initiate an international conference to this end,” it says.
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Southland Times, Issue 23346, 2 November 1937, Page 7
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