31/65 You will have much the largest volume of productive labour. And you will know the world as you have never known it before. What then is going to become of British trade ?" The best answer I can give is: "Adopt American methods of manufacture, and the devil take the hindmost. There will be for a long time plenty for everybody to do; and let us make sure that we both play the game fairly: that's the chief matter to look out for." That's what I most fear in the decades following the end of the war--trade clashes. I recall a speech made to me by the friendliest of the British--Mr.Balfour himself: "I confess that as an Englishman it hurts my pride to have to borrow so much even from you. |