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Advertisement for Schweitzer’s Cocoatina, the Queen of Cocoas, 1890. In Britain, feelings were running high during the First World War, and German goods were widely boycotted. This extended also to companies with Germanic names. An October 1914 advert in the Daily Mirror said: "Caution. The proprietors of Schweitzer's Cocoatina and Fairy Cocoa beg to inform their clients that none of their products are manufactured in Germany, they are a private English company, managed by a board of English directors." From "Illustrated London News", 1890.