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::Sir William Clark found himself back home when the war had half-way run its course and his services were at once requisitioned by the President of the Board of Trade, who made him Comptroller-General of its Commercial Intelligence Department. His functions were of a varied character, but their main objective was the ensuing of a sufficiency of food supplies for Great Britain, which was then beginning to feel the menace of the German submarine campaign. Clark was in close touch with com-

::Sir William Clark found himself back home when the war had half-way run its course and his services were at once requisitioned by the President of the Board of Trade, who made him Comptroller-General of its Commercial Intelligence Department. His functions were of a varied character, but their main objective was the ensuing of a sufficiency of food supplies for Great Britain, which was then beginning to feel the menace of the German submarine campaign. Clark was in close touch with com-

contact with every part of the Commonwealth and gave him unique opportunities for acquiring a knowledge of their economic conditions, resources and potentialities. Canada and her trade came under his purview and, although he has never before set foot upon our shores, he probably knows more about us than we imagine. :: His duties have also brought him into relations with High Commissioners and other representative people from the Dominions, and he probably starts with a ready made circle of friends in Canada. The post which he now assumes may involve some delicate situations and adjustments and a typical English civil servant who had rarely stirred out of London or a regular member of the diplomatic service, whose orbit had been the Capitals of Europe, might not have fitted in easily at Ottawa.

contact with every part of the Commonwealth and gave him unique opportunities for acquiring a knowledge of their economic conditions, resources and potentialities. Canada and her trade came under his purview and, although he has never before set foot upon our shores, he probably knows more about us than we imagine. :: His duties have also brought him into relations with High Commissioners and other representative people from the Dominions, and he probably starts with a ready made circle of friends in Canada. The post which he now assumes may involve some delicate situations and adjustments and a typical English civil servant who had rarely stirred out of London or a regular member of the diplomatic service, whose orbit had been the Capitals of Europe, might not have fitted in easily at Ottawa.