137:. While engaging in trading iron items for local artifacts, he was also somewhat critical of the German government "for their colonial intervention in the Pacific" and mildly lamented their encroachment into areas populated by indigenous people. As Germany moved into more of the area prior to World War One, Mörner returned home with over 1500 items. His collection was referred to in the press as "the last significant collection returned from German New Guinea before the fall of the colony during the First World War."
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Scandinavians, and that there is no country on earth where individual enterprise, work, and freedom of competition are so restricted by laws." The
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