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Timaru Herald, Volume CLV, Issue 22791, 15 January 1944, Page 4

“The administration of the British colonies must continue to be the sole responsibility of Great Britain. I give no support to a theory, which I thin* now gains few adherents, that it would be for the benefit of a particular colony, or for the benefit of the world as a whole, that the colonies should be administered by some international body.” said Colonel Oliver Stanley in the House of Commons. ‘‘Nothing is more likely in practice to break down and less likely to lead to the steady development of the territory concerned than international administration. Responsibilities in the future in the colonial Empire will not be confined to the making of laws or the keeping of order. They will entail financial and economic aid on a large scale. The direct benefits to our own economy may be small, as they have been in the past, but the indirect benefits can become incomparably great. If we can make 60,000,000 people happy, prosperous, friendly and grateful, people who transact their business in the same language as us, who have experience of our commercial methods and a predilection for our commercial products, the indirect assets to the economy of this country may well be enormous."

“There is every indication that Hitler and his Nazis are still determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible, and. if they must go down, to go down in a Wagnerian holocaust into which thev hope to drag as many of their victims as possible,” states the New York Times. “Even the most rabid Nazis now'admit that Hitler made a 'mistake' and that his ambition to enthrone the German ’master race’ as ruler of the earth has miscarried. But the Nazjs still boast of their invincibility in defence, for which the concept of the European Fortress was to be the Bvnonym. There are even reasons to believe that the German High Command is already envisaging the possibility of being forced not only out of

Italy, but also out of France and Norwav. the southern Balkans and the ' larger part of occupied Russia, and is taking measures accordingly. These measures, it appears, consist in the corn, struction of an inner fortress withifl’ the ’European Fortress,’ a citadel already being referred to as a ‘National Reduit.’ in which Germany could concentrate all her remaining strength for a holding war in the last desperate hope that the Allies would grow weary of trying to storm it and consent to a negotiated peace which would save the ckln of the Nazi chieftains.”