COLONIAL TRADE
FRANCE AND GERMANY HOPES FOR AGREEMENT LONDON, March 2 France is eager to reach agreement with Germany as the result of present trade negotiations. France hopes that Germany will then be induced to exert a moderating influence on Signor Mussolini, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. It is believed that France is willing to facilitate German purchases of raw materials from French colonies in return for manufactures of machinery, with which France could hasten the development of the colonies. France's main condition is that she will not tolerate German settlement of French possessions. It is understood that Herr von Ribbentrop recently complained that M. Bonnet's reaffirmation that France intended to fulfil her Polish and Russian treaty obligations, the spirit of Munich and the FrancoGerman declaration of December 6. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent concludes that Herr von Ribbentrop's attitude indicates that Germany regards any effort to preserve the status quo as a violation of the Munich agreement and the declaration-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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