Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Foreign Trade and Shipping, Vol. 16: Written for the Alexander Hamilton Institute
The last five years have given to the people of the United States what they formerly had only in a small degree, a world outlook. Foreign trade is not to the same extent as formerly a thing remote, because as never before our people have begun to take part in the economic life of the world at large, since they found themselves forced to enter the struggle for the world's freedom. The recent war showed us plainly that America's future will be safe only to the degree in which its peo ple carry into their peace labors the same devotion, ideals and cooperative spirit which marked their war time sacrifices. The world expects great things of America. It entered the war for the sake of an ideal. May Amer ica's foreign trade expansion be similarly actuated by more than the desire for gain, or the will to conquer. May it become a potent force in spreading American ideals of justice and fair dealing. Upon the exporters and their representatives rests a great responsibility. They have it in their power to strengthen or to destroy the high esteem in which America is now held abroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
