"The countries of the British Empire and their Allies, with the United States and South America, alone are in a position to carry out such a policy," Mr. Eden said, "For irrespective of the nature of the political settlement, continental Europe will end this war starved and bankrupt, "Wasteful wartime cultivations of many lands will leave agriculture arnest as weak as industry. Thus. Europe will face a vast problem of general demobilization with a general lack of the necessary means to put men to work, "Let none suppose, however, that we for our part intend to return to the chaos of the old world, To do so would bankrupt us no less than others, When peace comes we shall make such relaxations in our wartime financial arrangements as will permit revival of international trade on the widest possible basis, We shall hope to see development of a lem of international exchange in which trading in goods and services will be a central feature,
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