Secondly, in order to satisfy their vitally important needs for more living space and raw material supplies Germany and Italy had asked Britain and France to give up some of their entirely superfluous posses-ions, Refusal of the. democracies to comply with the perfectly justified Italian and German requests was certainly no basis for neighbour ly ce-operation and entirely out of keeping with the principles of justice and freedom of nations, Thirdly, and finally, Signor Gayda contends that the democracies, by virtue of this refusal to grant German and Italian requests, prove that they are determined to provoke war, which will be the maddest in all history and a death-blow to European culture.
Britain and France, he concludes, reefer to sacrifice between four and five millions of their citizens rather than cede a few thousand square kilometres of as yet uncolonized and sparsely populated territory to nations which stand in imperative need of such possessions.—Trans-Ocean, Pacific Defence to be Discussed New Zealand Minister Now In England Southampton, May 30.
The Minister of Finance for New Zealand, Mr. Walter Nash, arrived here today to discuss with the British Government the question of defence in the Pacific.
"We have always been concerned with the defence situation in the Pacific," he said, "We feel that we ought to take a bigger share of the defence in the interests of the Commonwealth in that area."
Mr. Nash left New Zealand immediately after the defence conference between representatives of the United Kingdom, Australia, New. Zealand and Fiji Islands, He will place before the British Government the conference's recommendations.—United Press.
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