"EXCELLENT NEWS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 7

"EXCELLENT NEWS."

Colonial Co-operation Between

Britain And France.

WELCOMED IN BRITAIN.

LONDON, March 24.

Tn welcoming the Colonial Secretary's recent visit to Paris the "Economist" says: "It is excellent news that permanent liaison offices will be established in the two capitals to promote intercolonial co-operation. Little by little all spheres of political and economic life in the two great Empires are being brought into contact, and the closer this co-operation grows the more secure becomes the certainty of victory in the war and peaceful collaboration in victory.

"The colonial sphere, including the lives and interests of about 120,000,000 colonial citizens, is obviously of extreme importance. It. is especially encouraging to learn that the contact which is l>eing established between the two capitals is to be repeated throughout the colonial Empires by collaboration between local administrative officials.

"The French and British policy intelligently co-ordinated couhl profit immeasurably by new ideas and new angles of approach to which such association would give rise."