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Secretary’s Notes of a Conversation Held in M. Pichon’s Room at the Quai d’Orsay, Paris, on Tuesday, 28 January, 1919, at 4:00 p.m.

to France. Then there were also the questions of economic and geographical contiguity, as had been set forth by Mr. Hughes in respect to New Guinea. Geographically, Togoland was an integral part of Dahomey, which was rather closely wedged in between Nigeria and the Gold Coast. Togoland and Dahomey were inhabited by the same tribes, possessing the same traditions. The same reasons of contiguity existed between the French Congo and the Cameroons. The policy of Germany, which ended in the agreement of 1911, had been to cut the French possessions off from the sea, so as to smother the French econo…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1919-01-28
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume III
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1919Parisv03/d51
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Record ID	`frus:frus1919Parisv03/d51`

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Secretary’s Notes of a Conversation Held in M. Pichon’s Room at the Quai d’Orsay, Paris, on Tuesday, 28 January, 1919, at 4:00 p.m.. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1919. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1919Parisv03/d51.