ASQUITH, Herbert H.

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Trade and the Empire. First edition, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "E. R. Wright, from H. H. Asquith". Collected here are Asquith's rebuttals to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Austen Chamberlain's "protectionist" policy proposals. Prior to leading Britain into the First World War, Asquith here sets out a defence of free trade and Empire for the new century.

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