FRESH CAMPAIGN FOR COLONIES

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 9

FRESH CAMPAIGN FOR COLONIES

Hitler Makes Definite Plans .

PEACEFUL SOLUTION WANTED

LONDON, March 12.

Little doubt exists in diplomatic circles that Germany and Italy are preparing to launch a major campaign for colonies, but whether it will take the form of a thunderbolt is not yet clear. It is learned from Berlin that Herr Hitler is making definite plans to regain the territory that Germany lost after the Great War, but apparently by peaceful stages.

At first the force of the propaganda campaign will be increased, but parallel with it will be an insistence on a desire for a peaceful solution. This expressed desire for peace will be sharply contrasted with the “warmongering policies” of the western democracies. It will be contended that Germany’s honour is involved because of the “colonial guilt lie,” which must be expunged.

Recognition Of Rigid

'The democracies will be requested publicly to proclaim Germany’s legal right to all her lost colonies, and to recognize that her colonial rights arc inextricably woven into the pattern of German economics and commerce. The culminating step will be a peremptory demand for redistribution. The German Propaganda Ministry is issuing maps emphasizing the size and the richness of the lost territory.

In London it is reliably stated that Germany will insist on a settlement of the colonial problem before the talks with British industrialists in Berlin shall have any effect. The Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, will probably ask the other countries concerned to consider the matter in the near future.

GERMANY’S CRAMPED CONDITION

“Must Insist On Demands For Colonies” (Independent Cable Service.) (Received March 13, 10.30 p.m.) BERLIN, March 13. Dr. Robert Ley, leader of the Nazi Labour Front, speaking in Munich today, said that the Germans were still a race without space. They must stand together in order to break this cramped condition. “Forty million Englishmen rule 470,000,000 people,” he said. “We are at least as good as the English, and fate should give us the same task. We have only to insist on our demands and we will get them. “Despite all our efforts, a nation as cramped as we are is bound to fall a victim to Marxist teachings, even with the best social institutions.”