HITLER’S POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 5

HITLER’S POLICY

TACTICS IN SOUTH TYROL ADJUSTMENT

QUESTIONS IN THE HOUSE

OF COMMONS.

SUGGESTED PRECEDENT.

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, July 19.

The Marquess of Clydesdale asked in the House of Commons today whether, in view of the fact that the South Tyrol is the only place in Europe where frontier revision provides a simple solution of the racial problem but that Herr Hitler apparently prefers settling this problem by a scheme to remove the German population from their land, steps will be taken to obtain detailed information regarding this scheme with a view to the application of similar principles in the case of other German demands. The Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr R. A. Butler, replied that Britain’s representatives in Germany and Italy were reporting on developments in the plan dealing with the problem of South Tyrol, of which full details were not yet available. Britain would bear in mind the possible applicability of these principles to other areas. The Marquess of Clydesdale then asked whether, on the information available. the Foreign Secretary thought that Herr Hitler would prefer war to settling his demands by a scheme such as that operating in South Tyrol, and did he also think that Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had initiated a new principle for solving racial problems by negotiation rather than by war; or, on the other hand, was he (the questioner) to understand that Herr Hitler, for the sake of expediency, had shown himself as treacherous to his own people as he was to Mr Chamberlain at Munich?

Mr Butler replied: “I think we can all draw conclusions from the actions taken.”