WORLD-ORGANIZATION AFTER THE WORLD-WAR 725 
line of governmental organization, in that it conforms to the 
methods of approved business practice, as seems appropriate in 
bodies that are to have charge of the world’s greatest economic 
interests. The delegates of the nations are made to function as the 
attorneys of the national shareholders, while the directorate they 
select is made to serve as the directive and executive body. It is 
presumed that the nations will be wise enough in their own interests 
to appoint as their representatives men of affairs of demonstrated 
capacity and experience. The conduct of the affairs of the Con- 
federation should follow as little as may be the precedents of politi- 
cal bodies and as much as possible the precedents of business 
bodies of the highest order. The work to be done lends itself 
happily to this. 
It will be recalled that the proposed basis of representation and 
voting in all essential matters is to be proportionate to the partici- 
pation of the respective nations in international commerce in the 
two respects, (1) shipping, and (2) shipped commodities, and that 
every nation that takes any measurable part in international 
exchange, and duly registers and reports it, is entitled to representa- 
tion in the ratio of such exchange to the total exchange of all 
nations, be the amount much or little, the scheme thereby resting 
on the solid ground of strict equity and being really omninational. 
For practical reasons, however, the personal representation 
should be limited to workable numbers, and so a unit of personal 
representation will need to be fixed. The standard unit in trans- 
portation might naturally be a given number of ton-miles, while 
that in exports and imports might be a given aggregate value. A 
basis for correlating the two would need also to be fixed. The 
representatives chosen on the basis of transportation might form a 
Chamber of Commerce, if the term suits; those chosen on the basis 
of exports and imports, a Chamber of Commercial Industries. In 
all cases where the commerce of a particular nation falls below the 
adopted units one delegate should be allowed, that all such nations 
may be represented. It is to be noted that this merely provides a 
personal representation; the voting power would be based solely on 
the commercial record of the nations, and in these cases would of 
course be small. 
