NAZIS WARN BRITAIN

Southland Times, Issue 23681, 2 December 1938, Page 7

NAZIS WARN BRITAIN

REPRISALS FOR “INTERFERENCE”

NO ARGUMENT ABOUT COLONIES

BRITISH TRADE OVERTURES REPORTED DROPPED

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received December 2, 12.40 a.m.) LONDON, December 1.

The Nazi Minister of Propaganda (Dr Josef Goebbels) in a speech at Jaegerndorf, in Sudetenland, again criticized Britain.

“Britain enjoys interfering in German affairs,” said Dr Goebbels, “so she must not be surprised if Germany intrudes in internal questions of the British Empire.

“Germany will not argue about her colonial claims; her purpose is clear and definite.”

The News Chronicle says that the British move for the development of Anglo-German trade, about which officials recently visited Berlin, has been quietly dropped temporarily because of the changed temper of the German Government

NAZI STRANGLEHOLD ON BALKANS OBSTACLES TO BRITISH INDUSTRY (British Official Wireless) (Received December 1, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 30. An important reference to the conditions of economic competition in Europe was made by the Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade (Captain D. U. Hudson) in a speech at the end of a debate in the House of Commons on a private member’s motion on the development of export trade. Captain Hudson, dealing with the question why Britain did not follow the example of the United States in refusing most-favoured-nation treatment to German goods, said there was no discrimination against British goods in Germany, as was the case with certain United States goods. The British complaint against Germany was not that, but that by her methods she. was destroying trade throughout the world, said Captain Hudson. According to information he possessed in his department it appeared that in countries in Central and South-Eastern Europe Germany was trading on a basis of paying to the producers in those countries much more than the world paid. If she was going to do that it was obviously at the expense of the German people. Germany was obtaining an economic stranglehold on some of these countries by raising the cost of living to her own people and exporting goods at less than cost price. To meet this competition the only method was to organize British industries so that they would be able to speak as units with the industries in Germany. Britain was stronger financially than many other countries, and certainly stronger than any of the totalitarian States, and thus had an advantage which would result in her winning the fight, said Captain Hudson. His department was doing its best to see that more and more industries were organized on this basis.