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grow to maturity, all nations would reap 

 the advantage. Some years ago this trans- 

 planting process was conclusively proved 

 to be a success, and the Danes already often 

 transplant from one fjord to another. 

 Transportation to the North Sea would 

 not be costly if it were done on a large scale. 

 To be successful, these projects should have 

 the consent and co-operation of all the 

 countries bordering the North Sea. This 

 international waterway requires inter- 

 national agreement in its exploitation, and 

 the utmost freedom of the seas for us and 

 the surrounding nations. All people have 

 the right to participate. Nations have 

 hitherto looked on the sea simply as a 

 means of cheap freights, or it has been the 

 object of world powers to get the mastery 

 of the sea in order to dominate other powers. 

 From the time of Greece, Carthage, Rome, 

 Genoa, and Venice, the mastery of the 

 seas meant the mastery of the world. 

 With the advent of the submarine and 

 airship such mastery is no longer 

 possible for any one nation, and it 

 must eventually be perceived by all that 

 the ocean is an international waterway 



