The Archive · 1936

Herr You Ribbentrop's View

London, Dec. 15.

A solution of the colonial question was In the Interests of everybody in the long run, emphasized Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. German Ambassador to Great Britain, in his first public speech to an English audience at Grosvenor House" tonight, Herr Hitler, he suid. saw in the possession of colonies for the supply of raw materials and in world trade two very essential means of raising the standard of life of Germans from the "present subsistence level.

Another Anglo-German conflict or another world war, the Ambassador declared, would mean an inevitable victory for Bolshevism.

Herr von Ribbentrop expressed regret that the German Chaneollor's. repeated offers of disarmament and non-aggression pacts and other peace instruments had failed.

He said he was convinced that the world was unable to return to order and peaceful development as long a destructive Communist ideas were

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