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LONGMANS, GREEN & CO.

London, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras

LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY, New York

1921

Se

291219

No. 477

JULY, 1921

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FRANCO-BRITISH RELATIONS

URING the spring and the summer of 1918, while Bertha was reminding the Parisians that the war was far from being at an end, a French committee, composed of statesmen and representatives of several State departments, met at the Ministère des Colonies in order to study the Colonial conditions

of the peace. This 'Commission d'étude des questions

'coloniales posées par la guerre' were particularly anxious to find out what the views of the British on kindred subjects might be, as it seemed to them that France and Great Britain had a close interest to walk hand in hand at the peace conference, whenever such a conference might take place.

Accordingly they paid some attention to a report that was drafted for them on that subject, in which it was pointed out that the horizon of the British Empire had lately undergone on all sides a very great change. As a result of their debate, they recommended that the French and the British Governments should exchange their views not only on one particular point, but on all outstanding colonial problems; that is on all problems outside Europe. This recommendation made, apparently, a strong impression on the mind of the French Minister of the Colonies, M. Henry Simon. He wrote an official letter to M. Pichon, who was responsible for foreign affairs, in order to ask him to approach the British Government and suggest a general conversation of that kind. The matter did not, however, proceed any further.

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