WORLD-ORGANIZATION AFTER THE WORLD-WAR WP 
of the area where Polish speech prevails, to sea-terminals on the 
Gulf of Dantzig. This is intended to serve as bond and barrier 
for the Italian, Jugo-Slav, Hungarian, Austrian, Czecho-Slovak, 
Polish, and German peoples, giving at once outlet and inlet to and 
from the Adriatic on the south and the Baltic on the north. Its 
relations to the problem of future peace are quite as critical as 
either of the preceding. 
4. The westernmost of the north-south highways follows the 
great natural trench of the Rhine. At the same time it is inti- 
mately connected with the main east-west thoroughfare in the 
valley of the Danube, and the two are best considered together, for 
they should really form a single thoroughfare. Starting from ter- 
minals on the Black Sea near the mouth of the Danube—the same 
terminals that serve the easternmost north-south highway—this 
thoroughfare follows approximately the course of the Danube to 
its confluence with the Drave, which is then followed to its head- 
waters in the Alps near Brenner Pass in the Tyrol. Awaiting the . 
construction of a more direct connection with the Upper Rhine by 
tunnel, it is proposed to use for the present the route over Brenner 
Pass and up the valley of the Inn to the Rhine. Thence the high- 
way follows the Rhine to sea-terminals on the waters of the North 
Atlantic at the Sheldt and at the Dallart and perhaps at other 
points. A branch may be made to diverge from this near the angle 
in the Upper Rhine and extend thorugh Switzerland and France 
to terminals at Marseilles but this is outside the area directly 
involved in the war-settlement. ‘The great east-west thoroughfare 
through the valleys of the Danube and the Rhine should provide 
at once a bond and a barrier between the peoples of Southern 
Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Croatia, Slavonia, 
Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, and 
Holland. This crosses the two central north-south highways as 
shown on the map and gives them east-west connections. 
5. A more southerly east-west highway is proposed to pierce the 
heart of the Albanian-Macedonian wilds and introduce a peace- 
maker between the peoples of Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, and 
Greece, and at the same.time unite the Saloniki and Bosphorus 
terminals. Starting from the mouth of the Drin on the Adriatic, 
