The Archive · 1938

Should Great

Britain return those German colonies over: which she exercises mandatory powers in Africa the situation on that continent might be very seriously damaged, while the re~ turning of territories from which a hostile Germany would be able to attack British trade lines, or upon which air bases could be established which would threaten South America cannot be thought of in view of present German tendencies.

Mr, Noel Baker's contention that recent events in Germany have demonstrated that] nation's unfitness to be trusted with the fate of a backward people, should be regarded in the light of an utterance on the subject by Lord Noel-Buxton, in the House of Lords on

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