An instructive comment on the disaster is that of Mr.
Cloudesley Brereton in Wednesday's Times. He maintains that not a little of the talk on the Continent about British commercial decadence was due to the haphazard way we have been represented at previous Exhibitions. Here for the first time Great Britain not only put some of her best goods in the shop window, but she also condescended to dress it. For- tunately, though the British section at Brussels has been wiped out, the organising corps which collected and arranged it is in full existence, and affords a guarantee that we shall never revert to the old happy-go-lucky methods. At the same time, there can be little doubt that the continu- ance of international Exhibitions depends on the enforce- ment of proper structural regulations and the establishment of proper financial guarantees. Otherwise private exhibits and loan collections will not again be exposed to such risks as are inherent in the present system.
