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THE Bill to prevent dumping and to establish a Special Industries Council to advise as to the promotion and assistance of special industries has just been introduced into the House of Lords by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, and, as might have been anticipated, met with a somewhat dubious reception from certain noble Lords who, faithful among the faithless, still bow the knee to the old gods of Manchester. Autres temps, autres mœnrs. We seem to remember a time when the present sponsor of the Bill made the “happy despatch” rather than obey the behest of the chief apostle of Tariff Reform and Imperial Preference to follow the path he is now treading. But we live in changeful times, and events are apt to play havoc with principles. Lord Balfour of Burleigh is not by any means the only citizen who recognises that the altered economic conditions of the Empire and of the world are nowadays inconsistent with the credenda of the Cobden School.
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The Anti-dumping Bill. Nature 105, 125–126 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105125a0
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