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produced in Europe at all, or that could be produced dicre only at a much
higher cost.
At the beginning of the nineteenth centurv; when the question v^-as
protectionism against free trade, the slogan of the free traders m Britain was
the simple Englishman's breakfast table for which all the products were
either directly or indirectly imp>orted from abroad. Even if some of them
were produced at home, it N\-as with the aid of fertiluer or fodder
from abroad. In order to dexrlop the products for the Englishman 's
breakfast, European im-estors urnt abroad and m the process the\
developed a demand for the products of English manufacturers. The>- also
had to esublish transport s>-stems. harbors, and so on.Therrtbre. it is simplv
not true that European consumers and then later American consumers
were hun b\' capital exports; the capital \%'as exported to invest m the
production of things that European and American consumers v^-anted. The
domestic resources of the European nations v^rrr lamentabK' insufficient.
It would have been impossible for them to feed and cloche their
populations out of domestic resources. In spile of the fact that thetr air
now se\-en times more people in England than at the stan ot'the Industrial
Revolution. ' the sundard of hsing is incomparaH>- higher. This M^-aN
possible only because capital had been imrsted and large-urale production
had been suned in Engbnd and abnv>d—railn>ads. mines, and so on
On the e\T of the Second World War. the etiMHMiuc structurr of
British life was characterized b> the tact that C»rraf Britain imported about
/]4nd\ o( foreign iountrio os^-ned b>- the British The
Maiubrd t)t living of (irraf Britain was vlrternuned bs this fatt During
World War II. a part of the%e Bntivh imrttments abroad v^rtr sold, nunch
to the United States, in order to pa> for the war and Ibr the surplus ot
imports the Britt%h needed before I end-lea%e started 'Then after the war.
when I end -I ea\e tame to ju end. the British gvnrrnment deilarrd that it
ill rvtuiulrti f> million in l"*S«t fd )
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