GERMAN PROFESSORS

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 63, Issue 4465, 18 August 1941, Page 6

GERMAN PROFESSORS

‘•REBUILDING THE WORLD.” “Earnest professors in Berlin—all little Fuehrers ‘of ad infinitum vision’ —are rebuilding the world to their hearts’ desire. Europe under Germany is merely the starting point. ‘There is Australia,’ writes Werner A. Lohe, reflectively, in the latest number of the Deutsche Kolonial - Zeitung:— ‘Australia is for Japan what Africa is for Europe the source of raw materials and the mutual trading partner on a grand scale. . . . Australia produces all the things which Japan’s industries need, with the exception of coal and iron (of which ample quantities can be got from China, and of oil, but oil lies within arm’s reach in the Dutch East Indies). But Australia can offer something else of vital importance to Japan. It has land, sufficient fertile land, to provide a living for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Japanese which they cannot find in the severe climate of Manchukuo or in North China.’ He admits a little fretfully that the Australians may have different views for their future, but ‘as the Axis Powers are going to win the war, Australian opposition to Japan is simply a piece of nonsense.’ ” Diplomatic correspondent of The Times, London.