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France needs her colonies for the same purpose.
 
Absolutely right.
 
England needs her Empire to feed her population.
 
Good. Quite right.
 
Holland needs her colonies to feed her people.
 
Belgium needs her colonies for the same purpose.
 
Good. Quite right.
 
Portugal needs her colonies to feed her people.
 
Good, Selbstverstandlich.
 
But Germany, say the English, in no circumstances needs
colonies to feed her people",
 
 
"This," said the Chancellor emphatically, "is absolutely 
intolerable (unertraglich)."
 
 
"Such a view shows neither statesmanship, nor common sense, 
nor a trace of political instinct".
 
 
The Chancellor did not believe that such an attitude 
could be maintained. The English went further. They were not 
content with warding off claims to territories under their control, 
they declare that Germany should not have any possessions at 
all from any other country. This was not common sense. "We 
were back in the atmosphere of November 1918".
 
 
"For me", continued the Chancellor, "it was doubly 
difficult to be faced with such an attitude. I have always been
pro-English. Long before I became Chancellor, in my writing
days, I advocated cooperation with England. I have never written 
a single line against England. I have always stood for close 
cooperation between the two countries".     But this purely 
negative English attitude is intolerable (unergraglich) this 
stubbornness (stour) this unreasonable attitude has made us
embittered (verbittert) on the German side.
 
 
One thing was clear, if the War of 1914 did not prove 
to be the last war, another war between the two peoples, said 
the Chancellor, would mean the end of the two countries. Such a
war