Colonies
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Future Policy in French Colonies
Reconsideration of French colonial policy by the new French Government will affect New Cale donia, French Oceania and New Hebrides.
According to “Colonial Review, of September, recent investigations divide the territories of the French Empire into five classes, according to the degree of nolitical freedom allowed each. The five classes are: (I) the Overseas Provinces (on an equality with the Provinces of ■Prance)* (ID the Federal Countries
“political maturity.” allows them
a considerable degree of .mdependence). (Ill) the Federal Territories (which can not acquire “the status of full P oll^ lc al personality” until they have u^e r gone a further period of tuition), (IV) the International Protectorates and Condo minium; and (V) the French Settle ments in British India. Frpnch New Caledonia is in Class ll,’
Oceania in Class 111, and the New Hebrides in Class IV.
Mr. Gordon Thomas, who was liberated from the Japs in Rabaul after 3 A years imprisonment, has settled down, Mrs. Thomas, at 3 Allman Street, Camp belltown, NSW. As a result of a medi cal inspection, Mr. Thomas has been ordered a long period of rest and quiet.