I was speaking this week to a leading merchant of that city who told me that his firm had recently stopped trading with an American house as they were enclosing in their consignments literature favouring the German cause. The American firm was very angry, more especially as it had dealt with them for years, but the reply was that this is war and "those who are not for us are against us." Here you have a specific instance of enemy association. Another case of enemy association with which you are familiar in all probability both in India and the East, and to a lesser extent elsewhere is the firm of Germans who have become nataralized British but who are really helping Germany and trading with her quietly. 'Those who are doing' direct and sole trade with us may escape. Under the Government Bill, the agents of the British Government will quietly report all these suspected cases to the Home authorities and then they will be black-listed without the possibility of appeal. It is uncertain whether the Black List will be published or not, but there is no reason why it should not be, since in this war we are not out to spare the feelings of our enemies or their friends, while moreover as it stands the Bill is not merely for the duration of the war, but lays down notimelimit at all Let us hope, therefore, it will continue after the war.
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