The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-10-25
Hitler Expects All
 Her Colonies Back
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 colonies. Therefore, they argue, the only thing that can wipe out that insult" of the Versailles treaty set- clement is re-establishment of the pre- Versailles status quo.
 Hitler is ReaIist
 Hitler, however, is realist on the colonial question and it IS admitted that Germany would need a much bigger navy to attempt to regain the colonies by display of force. Fur thermore, the Reich still desires to keep on friendly terms or to i'm prove relations with Great Britain.
 The Nazi attitude was set forth last weekend, without advancing any practical plan for solution, in two official statements:
 1. Minister of economies Walther Funk said that the colonial ques- ton for Germany is .above all Q question of honor and prestige"
 3. The foreign office official agency said that t"the initiative for cleaning up the colonial question lies not with Germany but with those who were responsible for the commencement of the wrong"
 Moral Right of Germany
 Thus the moral right" of Ger many to recover the territories will be the keynote, but Hitler unques- tionably realizes that he will have to do some swapping" with the other powers probably through Q general European settlement-to gain his objectives.
 Furthermore, 1t is highly unlikely that the Reich will ever try to get back every square mile" lost after the war.
 Many of the pre-war German cole onies went not to the Biitsh gov- ernment. for instance, but to the British dominions. As Q result Bri- tain could not propose any broad transfer without antagonizing the domiinons and possibly jeopardising the empire.
 Territories Involved
 The territories involved are:
 Former German southwest Africa, with SS5,000 square kilometers (about 322,3l0 square miles) which is now under league of nations mandate to the Union of South Af- rica.
 kilometers, under mandate to Aus tralia.
 Samoa, with 2,e00 square kilo- meters, given to New Zealand.
 In addition to those areas that went to British dominions, the Marshall and Caroline Island areas went to Japan; the Cameroons and Togoland were divided between England and France and the for- mer German East Africa was put under British mandate (now called Tanganyika).
 Keep Japan Friendly
 Germany is not likely to disturb good relations with Japan over the colonies that Tokyo got after the war, which means that any restora- tion of the former German Empire must center on the Cameroons, Togoland and Tanganyika.
 Those three areas, which Britain and France hold directly, have an area of 2,707000 square miles and contained li.000.000 inhabitants be- fore the war. They represent the most populous and best developed part of the former colonial possess slons and, while any negotiations for their return would admittedly be difficult, 1t would probably be less thorny than seeking restoration of other lost colonies.
 Germany, 1t was asserted, would insist upon outright return of the colonies. She would not entertain the idea of taking them as man. dated territory under the league, for Instance. Tn accordance with the Nazi viewpoint, the entire mandate system should be liquidated along with other creations of the ver- sailles treaty.