DEMAND FOR COLONIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1938, Page 5

DEMAND FOR COLONIES

CONFERENCE AT CAPE TOWN , SUGGESTED CONSIDERATION OF GERMAN CLAIMS. APPROACH TO ALL STATES INTERESTED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, October 28. The Cape Town correspondent of the “Daily Herald” says that the Union Government is planning a Pan-African conference of all the European States interested in African territory to consider the satisfaction of Germany’s colonial claims. The Defence Minister, Mr O. Pirow, has been authorised to consult the British Government regarding the feasibility of the proposal. It is reliably stated that if England, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Portugal are favourable the Union will seek to hold the conference in Cape Town and have it opened by the King. Experts consider that more than a year will be required to prepare the ground, and by then it is hoped that the international situation will be calm enough to enable thd question to be discussed dispassionately. ATTITUDE OF PORTUGAL. TALK OF AN ANTI-GERMAN FRONT. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LISBON, October 29. Officials are satisfied with the result of conversations with the South African Defence Minister, Mr Pirow, particularly with the arrangements for the Anglo-South African air service and the improved trade prospects. It is understood .that a common antiGerman front is favoured between South. Africa, Angola and Mozambique. Mr Pirow and the Portuguese Prime Minister, Dr Salazar, both declaring that no colonies should be ceded to Germany. BRITISH SOCIALISTS. ADVOCACY OF INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 29. Referring to the subject of colonies, a manifesto issued by the Socialist Party urges that the question must not be solved by redistributing territories among the competing Powers but by applying to all colonies not ripe for self-government the principal of international trusteeship in the interests of the colonial peoples and of all the world. Access to raw materials, it says, can be settled by readiness to allow all nations which are willing to renounce aggression and live at peace to share the world's abundance. The rebuilding of the League of Nations and of real collective security against aggression is demanded to ensure a return to the system of settling international disputes by impartial arbitration and to check the arms race which is now leading the nations to ruin.