Their own sweet way? The American in London answers his own questions by saying that "Downing Street would be crowded with indignant bankers, shipowners and merchants, demanding to know if Russia could deny trading rights, guaranteed by treaty, to the small company on Threadneedle Street which dealt with Japanese while conceding them to the great firm of Lombard Street which dealt with Japanese, and whether any power existed in any government to condemn a small sheeted group of British firms and persons to loss of trading rights, without any preliminary judicial process by which these British subjects or their government could be heard, and by merely handing out an arbitrary fiat." Britain is the greatest trading nation in the world. Branches of its foreign trade banks, of its shipping corporations, of its manufacturing and mercantile firms are established all over the globe, and the business thus is the foundation of British power. 