What would Britain demand in exchange for giving France its section of Cameroon in the 1920s?
Short answerIts value for protecting Nigeria and its remembered trusteeship status would obstruct a simple transfer. No concrete bargain is settled.
NotesThe hypothetical transfer to France begins with joking demands for former English territories in France, rather than a worked-out bargain. The substantive objection is British Cameroon's position beside Nigeria. Its valley routes and rivers are described as useful to protecting British-controlled areas from French pressure. Its status is also recalled as a trusteeship acquired from Germany after World War I, with uncertainty in the terminology. On that understanding, Britain could not simply dispose of it as its own territory.