Berlin, July 2.
France sacrificed some of her overseas territory in the interests of peace when she gave Turkey the Sanjak of Alexandretta. She should do more, ahd should return former German colonies to the Reich, Herr Joseph Buerckel, peasant's son and Reich's Commissioner in Austria, declared in a speech at Kaiserslautern today.
"France made a sacrifice for peace," he told a gathering of Western German political leaders, "in giving Turkey some territory so that Ankara should enter into the peace front' France therefore renounced land to serve the cause of peace.
"If France is really so generous, she should make another sacrifice and give up what she now unjustly holds—The German colonies. We would like to be- neighbours who would want to live together, and not shed their blood in battle so that yet another bloody chapter might be inscribed in the history books of Albion,"Herr Buerckel concluded.—Havas.
Shortage of skilled labour and inadequate materials in Japan have caused an unprecedented Japanese demand for foreign industrial machinery needed to provide military requirements in the campaign in China. Mr. Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, revealed today.
The Japanese efforts to obtain industrial machinery from abroad could also be traced to a desire to expand national industry, in Japan, Mr. Hopkins said.
The Japanese military clique desires national self-sufficiency and this factor has played a large role in the present situation. Japanese manufacturers have been unable to supply adequate machines and tools for auto mobile, aeroplane, rayon and pulp factories or mines, Mr. Hopkins said.
Some Japanese plants need two years in which to fulüll all of the accumulated orders because of the shortage of skilled labour and lack of necessary machinery, the United States Secretary of Commerce said.
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