WORLD-ORGANIZATION AFTER THE WORLD-WAR 707 
to the organization later to be instituted in the interests of perma- 
nent peace. 
This indispensable interval for segregation and reorganization 
into new nationalities may perhaps be placed at three to five years; 
the delay may be a sore trial to the impatient, but it seems impera- 
tive to safe procedure. 
A further test of the principle of allocation of resources.—During 
this period of reorganization, and in the performance of the obliga- 
tions which have been thrown upon the associated nations by their 
triumph, they will almost inevitably carry forward the present 
experiment in the control and apportionment of the resources of 
the several nations that make up the league. This allocation of 
resources is, in the minds of some of the most thoughtful students 
of the issue, regarded as the central working idea of the proposed 
league of nations. It is apparently not so in the minds of others. 
The control and apportionment of resources has been a most vital 
feature in the workings of the association of nations while it has 
been winning the war. ‘The pressing needs of the impoverished and 
starving peoples of Europe will make a continuation of this alloca- 
tion indispensable for some time to come. During the stress of the 
war, the conditions under which the control and distribution of food 
and other resources have been tried were quite exceptional, and it 
is by no means clear to what extent even the most right-minded 
peoples will be willing to submit to the deprivations that have 
attended this system, when the stress of war and the call to sacri- 
fice are gone. But as the war conditions pass away and peace con- 
ditions return, the application of the system may be tested in a 
more nearly normal way. The allocation of resources is no part 
of the scheme herein proposed but may be a consideration in form- 
ing supplementary leagues. It is applicable to that class of inter- 
national interests that we have put in the second class because they 
relate to the diversities of national interest rather than the common 
interests on which the proposed omninational organization is to be 
based. 
The new nationalities to be considered.—One of the first steps. 
looking toward lasting peace is the development of normal nation- 
alities out of the autocratic agglomerates. The factors that 
