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Empire Free Trade As for the sadly shorn policy of

Empire Free Trade, little now remains to distinguish it from what is common to Mr. Baldwin and the Dominions except the emphasis upon the taxation of food and the proposal for Free Trade with the Colonies. All this is a very foolish remnant. Tariffs are indispensable in the Colonies for revenue. Lord Beaverbrook, not content with suggesting that the Colonial Governments should be deprived of their obvious source of income, would shatter a very old Imperial tra- dition by depriving foreigners of the right to trade in the

Colonies on equal terms with the British. What inter- national recriminations such a step would cause no one can say. The position of the Empire would in any case be much less comfortable than it is now.

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