204 OUR ENGLISH LAND MUDDLE. 



English wheat is to come into more general use, 

 the fair whiteness of bread will suffer. Char- 

 acteristic English wheat does not make very 

 white bread so easily as some of the hard im- 

 ported wheats. It is more suitable for that 



' Standard " bread for which the Daily Mail 

 carried on a notable campaign. I have heard 

 the danger of some loss of whiteness in the loaf 

 put forward, apparently quite seriously, as a 

 clinching argument against attempting to use 

 more English wheat. That showed such an 

 extraordinary frame of mind that it discouraged 

 any attempt to answer on my part. 



Finally, in regard to the question of agri- 

 cultural protection in Great Britain, I have 

 always thought it a pity that it has been bound 

 up with another issue, the policy of Imperial 

 Preference. It is a national, not an Imperial 

 question, except, of course, in the broader 

 light that the greater safety of the Mother 

 Country through a greater economic security 

 is a matter of importance to all the Empire. 

 Great Britain should argue out the matter of 



' food duties " — that is, of agricultural pro- 

 tection—primarily in the light of considering 



