TERMS FOR RETURN OF COLONIES
NO “ARMED CAMPS” IN AFRICA (Received November 27, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 26. The Under-Secretary for the Colonies (the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava) in a speech at Oxford on the colonial question said the Government was not contemplating the transfer of any British territory. It was fallacious for Germany to say that the return of colonies would be economically valuable to her, because they could not supply any of her basic needs. “In any case it is quite unthinkable that any of her former colonies should be returned to Germany under conditions likely to reproduce in Africa the conditions at present prevailing in Europe,” he added. “We cannot have Africa converted into an armed camp.
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Southland Times, Issue 23677, 28 November 1938, Page 5
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