A bold declaration by an influential British source that Germany be returned all of its colonies as the price for its full collaboration in a lasting European settlement today threw startling light on growing British preoccupation over the Reich’s situation, the Havas News Agency reported.
It mirrored fears felt by qualified British observers and the press that Germany’s economic stress and its delicate position in the Mediterranean may force Chancellor Adolf Hitler into a “serious foreign adventure” before many months are past.
“If Germany is prepared to pay as the price a lasting settlement in Europe for a return of all her colonies, let her have them,” the influential Times declared as newspaper after newspaper focused attention on the situation beyond the Rhine.
In such an agreement Germany would have to give pledges of a complete return to European political and economic collaboration and abandonment of all adventures, the Times said.
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