Colonies London, Dec. 1.
The possibility that Germany was bluffing over the colonics question lxvas mentioned by Lord Bailey, former Governor of the United Provinces and Director of the African Research Survey, in 1095, in an address yesterday to the English Speaking Union, Lord Bailey said that it had been famirmed that the German colonial propaganda was designed to create fan artifelal asset, which Herr Hitler [would offer to abandon in return for jo free hand in eastern Europe.
It would be dangerous, he declared to "direct our policy on' this theory."
"The return of colonies to Germany, [Lord Bailey continued, would lead real danger in bringing back to Africa, a Power with imperialistic ideas of expansion.
There was also a serious possibility that the return of the colonies might lead to the break-up of the British Empire.
The only two reasons which would justify their return, Lord Bailey concluded, would be, firstly, the certainty that it would avoid war, on which [Great Britain's resources, at the time, would not permit her to enter, and, secondly, that their return would fmiake a' radical change In securing [Heuceful relations in Europe—Reuter,
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