The French Government are at present engaged in a vast colonial campaign aiming to revive the French people's "imperial feelings" close observers of the situation remarked today.
Paris is the capital of a commonwealth of nearly 100,000,000 people. it is recalled by politicians supporting that part of the speech by the Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, before the recent Radical Socialist Congress in which he said French zones of security beyond continental bord-Jers are just as precious as the metropolis itself.
An important part of the programme of the new Finance Minister M, Paul Reynaud, for future economic and financial reforms, will aim at the development of the colonies and the stimulation of trade between the overseas lands and the motherland, it is. understood.
His plan envisages replacement of some menaced European commercial outlets by others in the colonies, although he does not wish to achieve French autarchy.
Government quarters assert that Germany should be satisfied in her need for raw materials but there is [nevertheless no question of officially acknowledging restitution of colonial areas to the Reich so long as Berlin does not raise the question.—Havas.
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