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respect of nationality," should regulate all orders for public works or the furnishing of supplies; no specification for orders should contain either "explicitly or implicitly any condition or provision of a nature to violate the principle of free competition or to place the competitors of one nationality at a disadvantage as against the competitors of another"; "regulations as to contracts should be drawn up by the Moorish Government and the Diplomatic Body at Tangier."[1]

This Agreement presents an excellent model for the larger policy of the Open Door, in defining the economic relations of the Governments and peoples of advanced towards backward countries. If all backward countries, whether under the political control of some European or other "advanced" State or still politically independent, were formally recognized by Conventions of the civilized Powers as similarly open to

  1. ↑ "Ten Years of Secret Diplomacy," by E. D. Morel, p. 31.
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