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The Liberal German Commercial Policy.
The Commercial Supplement of the London “Times,” (Jan. 1913), in contrasting conditions in the French and German colonies, remarked:
“Blind selfishness, on the contrary, does not characterize the German; when he acquires a colony, he invites everyone—Germans and Englishmen, Portuguese and Frenchmen, to carry their capital and their trade there. In none of the west African colonies does the merchant meet with more friendly encouragement than in German Togoland and the Cameroons, where liberty, equality and fraternity is the motto of the governing power.” *
The chief organ of British interests in Africa, “The African World,” (March 13, 1913) observed that the German colonial administration was governed by the same principles as that of the English in East and West Africa. Professor Macmillan Brown of Canterbury University in New Zealand, in the “Daily Telegraph” of August 27, 1913, expressed great admiration for the humane character of the German officials in the South Sea Islands. Other eminent British colonial authorities, Viscount Milner, the Hon. George Foster, Canadian Minister of Commerce, the Rt. Hon. Lord Lucas, and Robert Melville, Esq., are cited in the “United Empire” of February 1914, in commendation of the German colonial system.
First Extension—then Extinction?
The manner in which organized calumny of German colonial politics has gone to work, even under re-