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Show DOES NOT INCLINE TOWARD imperialis-m: Paris. Nov. At the banquet ?n t night the Republican committee on corn merce and industry, at which a majority ma-jority of the French cahinet ministers were present AT. Waldeck-Kousseau. ti:e premier, amid ringing cheers, repudiated any aspirations to imperialism. "You may be assured." said hi'. "th.T we dream neither of internal nor external exter-nal imperialism. Our aim is not to enlarge en-large our colonial domain, but to organize- and consolidate it. We aspire to n France only greater by the efforts which j, commerce and social progress will not jt cease to realize." - M. Waldeck-Rousseau concluded his remarks re-marks by drinking to the prosperity of French workers at home and abroad. |