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THE NEW PROTECTIONISM

than to gain under a British post-war tariff. The following resolution, passed by the "National Association for Economic Expansion," recently formed under the leadership of M. David-Mennet, President of the Paris Chamber of Commerce, deserves attention:


"Great Britain constitutes our principal market; and British public opinion, moved by lively Press polemics, seems, at least to some extent, to incline toward Protectionist tendencies. The National Association thinks that it is urgent, in regard to the British Unionist thesis, to formulate the desiderata of France, and to show clearly that, while our sacrifices in the common struggle give us special rights, the interest of England, which buys only to sell again a half of the produce she takes from us, suggests that she should not set up against that produce a barrier which might divert it into more benevolent channels."[1]


The same reasoning applies to Russia. The large supplies of grain from Russia

  1. ↑ Quoted in Daily Chronicle, June 9, 1916.
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