Evening star., 1939-06-11

LONDON Correspondence of the
Associated Press Germany de-
mand for the return of her pre-war
colonies is apparently changing to
more general demand for colonies
anybody colonies!
But at the same time, observers in
Britain. France and Africa note ar
increased determination not to ne
gotlate any colonial deal With Hitler.
Reliable sources in Berlin say that
once Britain and France have ac-
knowledged that Germany has
legal right to her former colonies
and that she is fit to colonize, 3"
Relchsfuehrer Hitler would be will
ing to trade in other colonial areas
for those formerly held by the Reich.
Since the Munich agreement for
the diSmemberment of Czecho-
Slovakla last September, and espe-
clally since the Jewish restrictions in
Germany last November, it is gen.
orally agreed that public opinion in
many other countries is opposed to
giving colonies to the Nazis.
Outburst Against Jews Cited.
Sir Archibald Sinclair. leader of
the British Liberal party. for ex-
ample stated on November II:
We IN Britain cannot honorably
hand over to a government which
permits and even instigateS such
vile outbursts of frenzied barbarism
against what it regards as a subject
Ot inferior NF
tive peoples in Africa who now en-
JOY the blessings of freedom and
Impartial justice under British rule ."
Almost at the same time Gen.
Smuts, minister for justice in the
Union of South Africa, declared:
we must make it plain that we
shall defend Southwest Africa "A
former German colony to the bitter
end
There were several demonstrations
IN other parts of Africa against re-
turning the former German COL
onieS
Despite this outspoken anti-Nazi
1eehng, however, it is pointed out in
more moderate quarters in London
that since President Roosevelt and
the British and French governments
are now recommending consultation
as the means of settling all Ger
manys problems the question of
Germanys former colonies could
scarcely be left off the program.
Method of Solution Sought.
For this reason. these observers
nave been examining ways by which
the German point of view can be
studied and by which some solution
might be found.
one scheme often mentioned is
that Germany might be satisfied
with. getting the Cameroons and
Iogoland (Which she formerly
owned to gether with Nigeria and
parts OF Portuguese Angola and the
Belgian Congo.
Some reliable sources believe Bri-
tain and France could and would
be willing to compensate PORTUGAL
and Belgium for their losses in the
interest of a general settlement,
In Germany. however, it is pointed
out that the colonial question can
>1~'>A ~ maui lJdI Vi general
settlement. The German point of
view is that her colonies were taken
from her by an act of force and
therefore, belong to her by right"
The former German colonies with
the nations that hold the mandates
on them are Tanganyika CBritain)
South West Africa CUnion of South
Africa, Cameroons britain and
France, and Togoland britain
and France, all of which are in
Africa; New Guinea and the Bis
marck Archipelago (Australia, the
Marianne, Marshall and Caroline Is
lands CJapan, and Samoa New
Zealand.
The only claim I have ever made
and shall continue to make on Eng
land, said Hitler before the Reich
stag on April %, "is for the return