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THE Advisory Committee of the National Executive of the Labour Party has prepared a pamphlet on “The Demand for Colonial Territories and Equality of Economic Opportunity” in which the position of the three ‘dissatisfied’ PowersGermany, Italy and Japanis examined (Labour Party, Transport House, Smith Square, London, S.W.I. 4d.). In analysing access to raw materials, the division of the world, recently adopted by the Economist, into the British Empire, the French Empire, the Dutch Empire, the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and the rest of the world, is used. The general conclusion is reached that colonies are of some, but not of great, economic importance. Only in the case of rubber are the colonial possessions of a Great Power of dominant importance. It is held that the abolition of discrimination rather than the exchange of territories should be the objective. To this end, the Labour Party should advocate the bringing of Colonial possessions, such as those of Britain in Africa, under the mandates system approximately of the present Bf Class of mandates. The pamphlet is full of information and deserves close study.
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Colonial Territories and Economic Opportunity. Nature 138, 754 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138754b0
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