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tion governs and her law and rule are 

 paramount. Also inevitably Canada must 

 afford ultimate relief from the overcrowd- 

 ing of her older neighbor. 



The problem of Britain, Germany or 

 Japan is quite another story. These na- 

 tions in their growth, as well as others 

 which can be easily called to mind, are 

 endogenous, that is, in them development 

 proceeds from within. In the United 

 States and Canada and those countries 

 which are being populated more largely by 

 the immigration of other peoples than by 

 that natural increase which depends upon 

 birth rate, there is crying need of certain 

 nation-building mechanisms, whose func- 

 tion shall be to secure rapid fusion of 

 bloods, and formulation of common stand- 

 ards which shall serve to develop a people 

 of the highest type. In Canada, the ideas 

 and ideals are grown from British seed and 

 transplanted to new-world soil but must 

 have engrafted upon them an international 

 viewpoint suited to her many peoples in 

 order that the full fruition of Canadian 

 national eifieiency may be her contribution 

 to the empire. 



This very difference in population assets, 

 which in Britain are fixed and in Canada 

 fluid, is a very real difficulty, although by 

 no means insuperable. 



The diffusion of accurate information 

 from each portion of the empire to every 

 other part will enable each of the domin- 

 ions to effect sufficient modification in 

 British procedure and viewpoint for local 

 needs, without fear of being regarded 

 either as lacking in loyalty or too widely 

 divergent from tradition. Canada's task 

 is that of constructing a nation almost 

 "while you wait," which must, however, 

 be a part of that supernation upon which 

 the sun never sets. Hers is a constructive 

 problem. She builds anew and does not 

 have to dwell in chaos amid the litter of 



tearing down whilst she rebuilds her whole 

 national fabric. She will therefore do 

 wisely to profit by the experiences of the 

 older nations in order that there may be no 

 need of the uneconomic and tragic task of 

 reconstruction. 



In the development of Britain, undoubt- 

 edly her peregrinative propensity involved 

 in sea supremacy has been the natural and 

 rational outcome of her geographical posi- 

 tion. In this, our parent country affords 

 us the best possible example in the matter 

 of profiting from the experiences of other 

 peoples and the adaptation of their methods 

 to British needs, whilst at the same time 

 she has given to the world British stand- 

 ards of fair play, established justice, and 

 carried law and order into the Seven Seas. 



Japan at the present moment is perhaps 

 the most conspicuous example of what a 

 definite coordinated plan of procedure may 

 do in hastening the solution of very real 

 and pressing economic, social and political 

 difficulties, dependent upon increase of 

 population and limited territory. Her sons 

 are models of patriotism in their eager 

 willingness to expatriate themselves for 

 years in order to bring back to Japan those 

 up-to-the-minute scientific and cultural 

 stimuli needed for national metamorphosis. 

 Apparently, she seeks to be the carrying 

 nation of the Pacific, realizing, as Britain 

 did before her, the real power and oppor- 

 tunity which lie in the assumption of such 

 a function. 



She is developing an educational system 

 of which her university is an important 

 part. She is training her yoiith, not only 

 by manning her schools and universities 

 with the best obtainable talent of other 

 countries, but in every land and in almost 

 every university are Japanese who are 

 gladly sacrificing years of their lives in 

 order to bring home what she needs at this 

 critical period. Her amazing success in the 



