WORLD-ORGANIZATION AFTER THE WORLD-WAR Tis 
peoples, though they will need help, guidance, and guardianship 
while they are developing themselves. All have been great in the 
past’ and all may be again.. It will be a blessing even to the Otto- 
man people to be relieved of their debasing dynasty and the burden 
of the name that has fastened itself upon them—“‘the unspeakable 
Turk.” Relocated in their old home in Anatolia and developed 
anew on modern lines as Anatolians, they should in time take a 
- worthy place in the progressive world, for the Ottoman people, — 
fairly judged apart from their dynasty, are not without their merits 
and possibilities. 
Relations of omninational highways to other trans portation lines.— 
The main dependence for rendering these highways effective is 
placed on railways either taken over or built anew by the Con- 
federation. It is assumed that they will have a construction, 
equipment, and administration worthy of the high purpose they 
are to serve and of the world-body that establishes and administers 
them. It is further proposed that, so far as may be wise and prac- 
ticable, these highways shall be supplemented by waterways on 
rivers, lakes, and canals, and by common roadways adapted to 
motor travel, so that the whole shall be as effective and adaptable 
‘a combination as may be. Furthermore, it is proposed that these 
omninational lines shall work in as close co-operation as practicable 
with the national and corporate lines of the same regions, helping 
to bind the whole into a mutually helpful system of transportation. 
An important practical distinction between omninational and other 
lines will be discussed later. 
The bearing of the proposed measures on the thirst for national 
possesstons.—The thirst of overlords and feudal castes for greater 
and greater possessions is easily understood, but fair-minded people 
of the benevolent order see little reason to desire the irksome task, 
the great expense, not to say the critical risks, incurred in subjugat- 
ing and governing weaker peoples, provided fair opportunities for 
economic intercourse with them can be secured without such grave 
burdens. Under the inherited habit of exploiting subject peoples, 
possession has naturally been regarded as a prerequisite to economic 
advantage, and so the cost and danger of acquiring and administer- 
ing national possessions has been accepted as the price of such 
advantage. But if open doors and fair opportunities can be 
