Germany Can't Have New Guinea

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 4

Germany Can't Have New Guinea

Australia Urged to Make Position Clear CANDID PRESS COMMENT United Press Association— B* Electric Telegraph.—Copyrlght. Rcccivcd Friday, 8.10 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. b. The Herald, in a leader, says: “The coming Imperial Conference, or discus- { sions outside it, should provide opportunities for Mr. Lyons, if the Government’s mind is made up, to convey that in no circumstances will Australia consider a surrender of the mandate in New Guinea to Germany, and especially to a Germany which made a treaty with Japan of which the full terms were not disclosed. Germany has possibly done us a service by raising this question because tho recent official disposition in Canberra towards ‘cocking & snook 1 at the Alother Country—in assertion of some local right to deny, when it suits us, the principle of Imperial co-opera-tion—may now become more subdued. When the subject for discussion is immigration, we try to avoid it; if it be investment of British capital, there is curious eagerness to prefer American; the British air mail scheme met with official opposition here, as sturdy as it was stupid, for over two years. The sloguu ‘Tuning in with Britain' 1 petered out when we had converted our London loans and secured our meat export concessions. Tho German demand for New Guinea may set it afluttering again in Canberra.”