The Archive · 1938

Colonial Solution Offered Fuehrer

Mr. Pirow to Suggest Two Alternative Ways For Settling Question

Paris, Nov. 16.

Mr. Oswald Pirow, the! South African National Defence Minister, will take a plan to Berlin providing for the settlement of the colonial' question, "Lo Matin" reported from well-informed circles in London.

Mr. Pirow will tell Herr Hitler. says ithe paper, that Germany could create a colonial dominion both rich and useful, along the western coast of Equatorial Africa.

In other words, he will suggest to the Fuehrer new colonies in place of the ones lost by Germany follow-g the Great War.

These territories would include part of the Cameroons, 'a section of Angola, and a piece of Congo. These territories are fertile, and have access to the sea.

Mr. Pirow will also take with him an economic plan by which Germany would be able to obtain ray materials by means of a! colonial' pool" administrated by an inter national bureau in which all European nations having interests it Africa would be represented, including Germany.—Havas,

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