1 PEACEFUL CHANGE OR WAR? 65the application for membership which had been made by the Comité
d’Études des Problems du Pacifique of Paris.’ The preface to the record
of the proceedings of the Yosemite conference noted that the admission
to the IPR of the French group was ‘celebrated by the attendance...of an
authoritative and distinguished group under the leadership of M. Albert
Sarraut’ who had, it should be noted, succeeded Painléve as chair of the
Comité d’études following the latter’s death in October 1933.^200
There were four other members of the French delegation to the
Yosemite conference: Jean Laurent, André Touzet, Dennery and Lévy.
Laurent was a former secretary to Raymond Poincaré (who was both
a former prime minister and former president of France), and direc-
tor of the Bank of Indochina. Touzet had been aide-de-camp and chef
du cabinet of the governor-general of French Indochina from 1916 to
1919 and chef du cabinet of the Ministry of the Colonies from 1920
to 1924. His formal title now was as follows: Assistant Director of
Finances of Indochina.^201 At the time of the Yosemite conference,
Touzet was preparing a study comprised of four volumes under the gen-
eral heading of Le problème colonial et la paix du monde. The first volume
in the series was published in 1937 and was dedicated to Sarraut who
had been Touzet’s chief both in his role as governor-general of French
Indochina and as minister of the colonies. Entitled Les revendications
colonials allemandes, it examined the German colonial propaganda and
the calculations and supposed grievances behind it. The second volume,
also published in 1937, examined the motives behind the Italian colo-
nial expansion and what Touzet called the Japanese paracolonisation
of East Asia. The third volume, which appeared in 1938, sought to lay
bare the ‘sophisms’ in the colonial propaganda of the ‘puissances “non
satisfaits”,’ such as their claims that they were suffering from over-
population. The fourth volume, which also appeared in 1938, consid-
ered possible means of conciliating the unsatisfied powers (puissances).^202
(^200) Holland and Mitchell, eds., Problems of the Pacific, 1936, viii.
(^201) Ibid., 436.
(^202) The publication details of the four volumes prepared by André Touzet on the colo-
nial problem are as follows: André Touzet, Le problème colonial et la paix du monde, vol.
1, Les revendications colonials allemandes (Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey, 1937); André
Touzet, Le problème colonial et la paix du monde, vol. 2, L’Expansion colonial italienne:
Paracolonisation nipponne de l’Asie orientale (Paris: Librairie du Recueil Sirey, 1938);
André Touzet, Le problème colonial et la paix du monde, vol. 3, Les sophismes de la pétition