After this initial stage in the Society's history, there followed a sec-and stage during which the Corporation, having successfully surmounted its earlier problems, ceased to have merely a national status and developed those international ramifications which characterize it today. This growth was the natural corollary to the reputation which the British Corooration had made for itself, and between 1910 and 1920, links, were formed with classification societies in Italy, the United States of America, and Japan; in each case the new asso-clates adopted the British Corporation standards of strength and built up their organizations on similar lines. This phase of growth, which has reached its full strength in the past twenty years, is unique in the history classification and represents 2 world-wide expansion which should convince the most sceptical of the appeal which the British Corporation
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