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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1938
(To France)
COLONIES In Africa and Pacifc (To Britalu. the Dominions,
France. Belgium and Japan)
ALSACE LORRAINE
THE Treaty of Versailles, 1919, imposed these 12 penalties and
losses of territory on defeated Germany. has wiped out four of them. And he has
Hitler, since 1933, added a vast new Hitler, since 1933
block of claims. These are outlined in the panel on the right ̧
NEW
SOIL-OR
THE Treaty of Versailles stripped
THE
from Germany her colonies of German East Africa, German West, the Cameroons and the Pacific Is- lands.
The colonies, which were already in the hands of British and Domin- ion troops, were annexed on the grounds (i) that the Germans were unfit to govern; (ii) that the co- lonies had been used as military bases and recruiting'grounds; (iii) that the inhabitants wanted to be free from their "oppressors.”
reasons will
Not one of these stand genuine examination.
The Germans made a sound `job of their colonial administration; certainly they left far behind the French, Belgians and Portuguese. The more serious charges against the Germans in South-West Africa have been publicly repudiated by General Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, which now holds the annexed territory.
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East
GENERAL GOERING thunder- ed two years ago:
"We possess no colonies. The world still grudges our place in the sun. We must help ourselves. We want to share in the world's raw material resources."
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Two Famous Timepieces
SLAVERY
"The German people have no moral right to dabble in colonial policy as long as they are unable to gather their own sons into a Common State. Not until the boundaries of the Reich include the last Germans still outside does the right for Germany to acquire new territory arise out of the need of the nation."
The German version adds these grim and significant words, omitted from the English text, "THEN THE PLOUGH WILL BE THE SWORD, AND OUT OF THE TEARS OF WAR WILL GROW THE HAR- VEST OF FUTURE DAYS.
Race is the motive which causes Hitler to turn instinctively from the idea of tropical colonisation. Не notes with contempt the admixture of blood which it has brought to the Spanish colonisers of South America. The French have committed a still greater crime. They have bastar- dised their own race at home. They have brought the native to Europe and set up their Negro Republic from the Congo to the Rhine.
war,
"MEIN
KAMPF"
should be gathered into the Nazi
Hitler demands all Germans
Reich.
There are Germans in Hungary, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Czechoslo- vakia, Italy (Tyrol), Switzer- Jand, France (Alsace-Lorraine). Belgium, Denmark, Poland, the Baltic States and Russia.
DR. SCHACHT, former Minister of Economics, emphasised in 1936: "It is politically and economically impossible any longer to deny to Germany the control of her form- er colonial possessions."
The German colonies were almost entirely unfortified, and the total establishment of black troops there did not reach 20,000, a tenth of Guilt" to set alongside the "lie of
Now Germany the Giant must have What a piece of damnable folly the French colonial levies.
War Guilt!" What a picture to hold room to stretch her limbs. Her was the German formula of "peace- The inhabitants were never con- up to a hungry, whipped nation of population increases by nearly ful penetration!" That "peaceful sulted about their transfer.. The those great fat Allied Empires 900,000 annually. Germany must economic conquest of the preliminary
world" choose where she will go. experiment in
stealing the young overseas settle-
drew from England first a vague Africa looked so unpromising that ments of poor Germany!
This choice had to be made once distrust and then a series of incom- it was dropped.
Hitler never mentions it in Mein before, in Bismarck's day. Should prehensible threats, culminating in Kampf. The ples for colonies is Germany seek to acquire territory a positive anti-German alliance with The arguable reason for the something new.
in Europe, or should she develop the France and Russia. Thus, carrying Allies seizing and hanging on to the German colonies is that by doing so
system of colonial settlement and through that "peaceful conquest," trade? In a word, should Germany Germany finally found herself build- they kept the Germans out of Africa Indeed it is something contrary live of German land and labour, or ing a great fleet, which convinced and the Pacific. Which is, in fact, to the tenets of the Nazi bible. There of the produce of colonial exploita- England of her hostility. why it was done.
it is laid down; Chapter Orie, Page tion? Bismarck was What a case for Hitler! What a One of the English version of Mein course.
for the first "Yet no sacrifice would have been He was over-ruled. grievance, this "lie
too great in order to gain England's of Colonial Kampf.
Of course it would have meant alliance in 1914. It would have meant But then the other course was renunciation of the colonies and of bound to lead to war also and in less importance on the sea. It would favourable conditions. In fact this have meant refraining from inter- happened. Germany came into head- fering with British on collision with England and in the by
industry German competition in event she lost both colonies and the these markets.
All would prospect of European expansion. have been infinitely worth while!"
For Germany the sole sound ter- There was a moment indeed, cries ritorial policy is the conquest of soil Hitler, bitterly lamenting, that Eng- on the Continent so that Greater land would have let us speak to her Germany may form one contiguous in this sense. For she, understood area like the United States of very well that owing to Germany's America.
increasing population she - MUST How much more firmly is that sooner or later expand, either in great State-based than most of the Europe with England's help, or else- European Powers! For the European where in the world without it. Powers are like pyramids standing So the attempt was made from on their points. Their possessions London at the turn of the century on the Continent are absurd com- to bring about rapprochement with pared with their top heavy burden of Germany. (The man who made it foreign trade, colonies, and overseas was Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, father investment. One might say of them; of the present Premier.---Editor.) point in Europe, base all over the But Germans thought that there was world! But the mighty America a catch in it. "The Germans were Union has its base covering its own upset by the idea of 'pulling Eng-. continent and its apex is its point land's chestnuts out of the fire for of contact with the rest of the globe, her'-as if an alliance were possible Hence its vast internal strength. on any other basis except that of England, by the way, comes into the mutual benefit! We could have done American category nos the Euro a deal with Whitehall, as Japan did pean. "We are apt to forget the true in 1904. There would never have nature of the British Empire in its been a world war!"
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relation to the Anglo-Saxon world. It was not done. The hour pass8- If only on account of her community ed. The problem remained. It re- of language and culture with the mains yet. Germany must have land. American Union, England stands You must face the crude, plain point apart from every other State in of view that it is not the will of Europe."
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