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PREFACE

munications, for identical facilities in patent law, trade-marks, and copyright, as between the members of the allied countries, amount pro tanto to an extension of the area and liberty of human intercourse beyond the national barriers, and as such are in every way desirable.

But economic sanity regards with very different eyes the first heading of the "Permanent Measures" — viz., "Economic Independence of Enemy Countries," with its opening paragraphs. "The Allies decide to take the necessary steps without delay to render themselves independent of the enemy countries in so far as regards the raw materials and manufactured articles essential to the normal development of their economic activities. These measures should be directed to assuring the independence of the Allies, not only as regards their sources of supply, but also as regards their financial, commercial, and maritime organization."

Now, though neither here nor elsewhere in the Report is there any definite agree-

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