WORLD-ORGANIZATION AFTER THE WORLD-WAR PES 
3. Inasmuch as each nation’s commerce is definite and regis- 
trable, a graded participation in control and in administration 1s 
entirely practicable. 
4. Such control and administration 1s in tts nature both just and 
conducive to the common advantage. 
In the light of these two groups of contrasted deductions, it is 
now to be said, with emphasis on the distinction, that the Omni- 
national Confederation is xot proposed as a mode of political or social 
government but as a co-operative economic agency controlling the 
essence of international affairs. It involves, to be sure, such com- 
mercial regulation and such control as is necessary to realize the 
purpose sought, but there its governmental function ends. It is 
assumed that so long as races and peoples remain as diverse as they 
now are it is best that each distinct nationality shall give shape to 
its own political and social devices and shall control its own local 
institutions as suits itself best. ‘The proposed omninational effort 
is limited to concrete affairs of wide international concern, affairs 
in which co-operation is indispensable. ‘The proposal is in the line of 
divorcing what is essentially racial, political, social, and provincial 
from what is economic and general. Interchange of products is 
always necessary for mutual comfort; not seldom necessary to 
escape starvation, as we now realize as never before, and as we are 
likely to realize more fully still as the need for food nears the limit 
of food production. 
It is believed that a movement which draws a practical distinc- 
tion between political government, on the one hand, and co-operative 
economic regulation, on the other, will gradually remove the inherited 
motive for aggressive rulership. Such removal should open the 
way for a freer adaptation of the special forms of government to 
the preferences of the peoples concerned; it should tend to abate 
the thirst for empire. 
The functions assigned the Omninational Confederation.—It is 
proposed that the Omninational Confederation— 
(1) Shall take entire control of the policing of the high seas and 
of such regulation of international commerce upon them as may be 
necessary and equitable; 
