By Article 119 of the Treaty of Versailles, Mr. Noel Baker, declared, Germany renounced all the rights and titles of her former overseas possessions, and in law that article was absolutely decisive, The rulers of Germany and. Italy, he said, were artificially increasing the populations of their countries, In order to increase the manpower which they hoped to use in future wars.
"It is no part of the duties of a peaceful world to. provide colonial cutlets in which that object can be achieved."
Quoting statistics, Mr. Noel Baker stated that in 1914. imports from her colonies to Germany amounted to only per cent. of her total imports, namely 10/- in £100 sterling.
The real truth was that what were called colonies today were not an important source of raw materials for any nation.
Herr Hitler's racial theories showed that his Government was "utterly unfit to be trusted with the fate of a backward peopl
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