Germany and Colonies The, confident assertion, that the German campaign
for colonies is being damped down, if not called off altogether, finds confirmation in the undoubted fact that an important "Give Us Colonies rally, to have been held at Breslau this week-end; has been cancelled on an obviously transparent excuse. But against that is to be set the important speech by Herr Rudolf Hess on Monday, in which the Deputy Leader of the National Socialist Party endeavoured to. state persuasively the reasons . why it 'would' be In- the Merest of Other countries to -concede colonies to Germany. Herr Hitler himself, of course, identified himself with the demand for colonies for the first time in his Nuremberg speech,;. in Mein 'Kampf he bad brushed the idea aside almost contemptuously. How far the crusade for colonies is in fact being abandoned or suspended is not yet clear. So far as that is happening, the reason is pretty certainly a desire to avoid friction with this country at the present moment. It would be satisfactory to believe that the League of Nations' decision to initiate an enquiry into the nature of access to raw materials had resulted in a modification of the German attitude : but there is no good ground for assuming that.
