18 JULY 1925, Page 3

. If any nation has a capacity for such changes

it is surely this nation, which has long been impelled by the incentive of Free Trade to be watchful and alert and to court favouring breezes. We trust that this country will not in any way add unnecessary barriers, restrictions and formalities which are such an impediment at present to the free flow of goods. If all the nations would agree to knock down their barriers for the next two or three years until we have all restocked our shelves, the general recovery would be far quicker than it seems likely to be.