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new conditions, or manufacture articles specially designed to meet Chinese taste. And the same can be said for the German manufacturer. We produce and export to all countries in the world many articles of such excellent quality and standardisation that it would be a crime to change them in order to gratify the changing whims of fashion in many parts of the world. The Germans have also a smaller number of such standard and typical products. One cannot imagine that the distiller of the well known "4711" brand of Eau de Cologne would be willing to change his famous
qua- lity number because the digits add up to the unluckly number thirteen, but similar re- quests are made daily, and for similar and most trivial reasons. Owing to the superior and standard quality of many British pro- ductions, the British producer is often un- justly blamed for his refusal to cut his own head off.
IT
CHAPTER IV
AFTER THE War.
is of the utmost importance that a
definite policy be formulated at an early date by our Colonial Office in regard to the facilities for trading in our Colonies which will be given after the war to subjects of those nations with whom we are at present in deadly combat.
Are they to be allowed to turn up again as if nothing had happened, and continue to "raise our Colonies to eminence"? or will they be restricted in some manner, and a closer watch kept on their doings in future? It is almost unnecessary to em- phasise the danger of having such large German colonies in our own tropical and
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