GERMANY: Colonial Affairs

Likely Germans ambitious to work as colonial administrators after Adolf Hitler secures overseas territory for the Reich have been studying for some years in the first two German colonial schools at Rensburg and Witzhausen. Last week another such school was opened at Ladeburg by Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, who is “the Deputy of the Führer for Colonial Affairs.”

“We will never attempt to solve the colonial problem by military force,” barked General von Epp. “When Hitler told Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, and again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim.”

In a British poll of public opinion by the Gallup method last week, 85% of Britons queried were against return of any former German colonies to the Reich, and 78% answered “Yes” to the question Would you rather fight than hand them back?