"Germany does not need colonies in which to set up armies. For this purpose the fertility of our own race suffices. Germany needs colonies for her disencumbrance economically. If others do not believe this, it does not matter and does not impair our rights.
"From a viewpoint of common sense, the same reasons that once could be advanced for the robbery of our colonies now speak for their return. The lack of an economic area of her own where she can develop compels Germany to satisfy her needs for existence by ever-increasing participation in international world trade and thereby in the exchange of goods.
"Without sufficient supplies of the necessities of life and without certain absolutely essential raw materials, the economic existence of a people cannot Lo vouchsafed."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.