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Frontier Walls— A fine ceremony in Berlin last week transferring the ''tradition'' of the former German East African police troops to Prussia's state police reminded Germans of their lost colonial possessions. Shouted Premier Goring: "We say, very openly, that Germany needs colonial territory in order that she may not suffer internal suffocation." Louder rose the voice of an old warhorse, president of the German Colonial Warriors' League, Nazi Statthalter for Bavaria, General Franz von Epp: "We oldtime colonial soldiers keep alive the memory of the colonies of which we were robbed. . . . This 'tradition detachment' is to assure the task of fighting the battle for 'German room.' This task extends far into the future. Germany cannot get along without those colonies."
Thus, for the first time, Nazi leaders openly pounded on a wall that the rest of the world has ignored for 15 years. Most valuable of her colonies was German East Africa and particularly stubborn was the German Wartime defense of it, which was still going on when the War ended.
Last week Premier Goring, warming too well to his subject, went on to make a bad blunder: "The task of the police is not only to guarantee the security of the State against all enemies but also to be ready, when the hour of danger strikes, to defend the Fatherland at its frontiers." 'Since Germany has always claimed that her 110,000 police, quartered in barracks, should not be counted in her soldier totals, the Nazi publicity department hastily inserted in Goring's sentence the phrase "in 'common with all Germans."
Same day a Paris Le Soir reporter badgered Nazi Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath into an equally damaging admission: "That we have factories that can change to the manufacture of arms is a well-known fact in Europe. But in that respect we are still far from equality with other nations."