CONTROL OF COLONIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1940, Page 5

CONTROL OF COLONIES

ALLIED COOPERATION

OF VALUE IN PEACE & WAR.

STATEMENT BY MR MacDONALD.

(British Official Wireless.)

RGBY, March 21

In a Parliamentary answer the Colonial Secretary. Mr Malcolm MacDonald, told the House of Commons about his recent talks in Paris with the French Minister of the Colonies. He pointed out that contact between the two colonial administrations was no new thing, but the object of his Paris visit was put on a more regular and permanent footing what had been in the past intermittent. The most important result was a decision to establish regular liaison machinery both between the two Ministries and between the neighbouring administrations. “Such a liaison with the French colonial, empire will be of great value in times of peace." Mr MacDonald said. "It is certainly no less valuable between lhe Allies engaged in war. Already since the outbreak of war various problems entailing close cooperation between the respective colonial authorities have arisen and the joint study of these is most important. “For example, during the last six months both colonial offices have been working on programmes of production and market of essential foodstuffs and raw materials from their own territories. There is shortly to be a joint meeting of experts to perfect the coordination of these two programmes, the object being that, the Allies should make the fullest possible use of their joint colonial resources."