There may for a time have to be restrictions on certain imports from the enemy countries, and on certain exports to them, but all such proposals ought to be very jealously scrutinised, not only in regard to their effect on the particular trades directly affected, but on the country as a whole.

The use of such weapons often injures those who use them more than those against whom they are used.

Would not a German Minister of Propaganda, or a German Committee on War Aims, wishing to stimulate active support for the War among the German masses, be well advised to circulate some of the resolutions that have been passed by certain bodies in England and scatter them broadcast in Central Europe, with a few careful glosses and comments to point the moral?
They would be a valuable asset for a German "ginger group." The open door into and out of this country for commodities generally has made it an emporium for world trade, and been one of the main causes why, in spite of deficient home production of necessaries, we have been able to stand the economic strain of the War.
Striking off the fetters that it has been found necessary to impose--sometimes with undue strictness and pedantic minuteness--on British commerce and industry will be one of the first things to be hoped for from peace.

It is impossible to give detailed examples here.
Ask any merchant, he will give you specific instances of the need for a recovered freedom.

Questions are so closely involved with each other that we may seem to be mixing up national trade interests with the ideal striving for peace and goodwill.