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THE NEW PROTECTIONISM

But when once the existing war map of the world is taken as the directive instrument for our future commercial policy, there is no tendency to confine our tariff to this fivefold discrimination. So we find proposals to distinguish friendly from unfriendly neutrals. Friendliness, again, may be either in conduct as war neutrals, or in ordinary trade relations before the war. Mr. Wickham Steed, for example, would have this country and the Allies discriminate between "first-class" and "second-class" neutrals on the basis of their favourable or unfavourable attitude during the war. "States which have clandestinely sided with and helped the enemy, or have deliberately hampered the Allies during the war; peoples who, while able to defend themselves against eventual German aggression, have yet believed and washed for the success of German arms, must be regarded as second-class neutrals."[1] But I observe that the draft

  1. ↑ "A Programme for Peace," Edinburgh Review, April, 1916, p. 378.
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