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How Britain and France Might Collaborate

THE governments of Great Britain and France are working ever more closely together. Some of the arrangements for collaboration and co operation, which they have entered into, as a result of war conditions, seem likely to extend in an important way into the succeeding era of peace.

The Colonial Ministers of the two governments have arranged for colla boration between the governors of neighbouring British and French colo nial territories, and between administra tive and specialist officers. They are

examining the possibility of framing a dinating programme of production in the different colonies, and of bringing into operation a system of marketing the Products of the various colonies. If some method of properly marketing the products of tropical countries could be devised it might open new horizons for the planters in the Pacific Islands ter ritories. These rich islands have the soil, the climate and the labour to per mit of the economic output of every kind of tropical agricultural produce; but invariably, when a planter contem plates some new enterprise, he is faced with the insoluble problem: “Where is my market?” if he could get a prompt and reliable answer to that question, there is no end to the development which might take place throughout the length and breadth of the Pacific territories.