Hazell's AnnualHazell, Watson and Viney, 1907 |
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Page 236 - In case neither -of the High Contracting Parties should have notified twelve months before the expiration of the said ten years the intention of terminating it. it shall remain binding until the expiration of one year from the day on which either of the High contracting Parties shall have denounced it.
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Page 165 - That the objects of such reform are to secure more equal terms of competition for British trade and closer commercial union with the Colonies ; " 'I hat, while it is at present unnecessary to prescribe the exact methods by which these objects are to be attained, and inexpedient to permit differences of opinion as to these methods to divide the party...
Page 165 - Secondly, I desire closer commercial union with the Colonies, and I do so because I desire closer union in all its best modes, and because this particular mode is intrinsically of great importance and has received much Colonial support. I also think it might produce great and growing commercial advantages, both to the Colonies and the Mother Country, by promoting freer trade between them. No doubt such commercial union is beset with many difficulties.
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