Aug. 28.
Eager controversialists, who like to see every problem neatly defined in terms of black or white, without any or neutral shades, decisions at Ottawa difficult to assess. So the advocates of Lord "Beaverbrook's plan shutting the British Empire an economic ringed fence of tariffs may well believe that they have been let down by Mr. Baldwin. On. past form: their high priest will. not be reluctant to leave them with that notion. Mr. Lansbury, with the engaging precipitancy which ever marks his outlook on affairs overseas, has at once delivered a caveat from the point of view of the extreme Free Trader. Yet it is Possible to believe that, apart altogether from the exorcise by the Dominions of their own dis-¢retion, the BaldwinsRumeiman-Neville Chamberlain combination at Ottawa has been able to
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