From ‘Practical Proposals’, The Spectator, 6 February 1915:
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“BUT, after all, something has got to be done about these high prices; what do you propose?” so will, we are sure, persist the practical man. Well, the appeal is not unnatural, and we will try to answer it in a practical spirit. We will attempt to outline what we should do if we were the Government—provided, of course, that we had come to the conclusion that the rise was not temporary, but, as far as we could see, a rise likely to last, and a rise which was causing acute suffering. In the first place, we should look very carefully into the problem of freights, and see whether there was a shortage of shipping. and so a physical incapacity to bring sufficient corn to Britain.
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