EX-GERMAN COLONIES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 September 1936, Page 5

EX-GERMAN COLONIES

HITLER’S PRONBWEMENT SOUTH AFRICA ALARMED. Aess Association Electric Telesranh —CopyrifetA (Received Saturday, 9.50 aunv) CAPETOWN, Friday, South Africa is greatly alarmed at the turn of events at Nuremberg., in regard to the ex-German coloniesThe “Cape Times” points out that every member of the Union Government in the past few years has clearly stated that South Africa cannot consider the cession of South-West Africa or Tanganyika, and says: “It is difficult to imagine even on the widest grounds of world policy how the South African view can bo overridden.”

At the Nazi Congress at Nuremberg loud and prolonged cheers greeted the statement in Herr Hitler’s proclamation that Germany cannot renounce its claim to a settlement of her colonial demands. “Some say we do not need colonies,” stated the j ,roc l ama ti° n> “Nevertheless we would know how to make them an economic success. It would be less difficult for us than a reduction of unemployment in which all other governments have failed. We must export in order to buy agricultural and other products, and for this reason it is unreasonable for the world to complain of our cheap exports.”)