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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of wealth, but of wider opportunitiesfor the development of the institutions of free govern-rricut and of such ceonoinic and social conditions as areworlliy of a gr<:al people, compatible with the integrityof the Empire, and which will ensure the peaceful nationsof the IHfth absolutes(!curity from all who seek to disturbthe worlds peace. Mr. Utighess visit coincided with the meetingin Paris of an Economic Conference of theAllies. This Conference aroused grciat anxietyin English Radical and Free Trade circles,whif;h Hupposful that France was seeking tolure England into some kind of Protectionistairibush. Mr. Asqiiith hastfined to assurethese persons that the British reprosentativi^swould return fntm Paris uncommitted to anyspecific m*»asures, and that nothing would bosaid by thein which would in any degree f(^ttorthe free action either of the (ioverninent orof the House of (JoniMions. But an incidentwliieh oeeurn-il at th») Manchester (Chamber of 342 THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAB.
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MR. LLOYD. GEORGE AT THE FRONT WITH M. Commerce, the citadel of Free Trade, con-firmed the belief that the country, as a whole,had definitely made up its mind upon certainInoad principles of Englands future tradepolicy. A split having occurred over an attemptmade by the directors of the Chamber tocommit the Chamber to the maintenance of thepolicy of free imports, and a memorandum ofthe directors having been rejected by a largemajority, an election was held to fill the placesof the directoi-s who had consequently resigned.Of the 22 elected, 18 were definitely pledgedagainst Free Trade with Germany after thewar, while two were in favour of it and two werenot committed either way. In fact, as Mr.Herbert Samuel, the Home Secretary, declared, there was undoubtedly at this momentthroughout the nation a widespread and intensefeeUng that after the war we should not be ableto enter again into friendly equal trade relation-sliips with those who were now our enemies.It was therefore with much sa

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