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The question of the balance between benefit to be gained and odium to be incurred by insisting upon freedom to carry the goods of belligerents I leave to the politicians.
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Thomas Erskine Holland
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He leaves the political implications of carrying goods for belligerents to the politicians, indicating the complexity of wartime trade.
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