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       Canada in the same way might feel that she required 
to be assosiated both with the Two Americas and with 
Pacific regions.
 
       The U.S.S.R. might desire membership in the Pacific region.
 
WORLD RESPONSIBILITIES.
 
       In the preceding section the minimum political responsibl-
 
ities of regional pacts have been discussed. If a satisfactory 
 
peace settlement is to be achieved, how far necessary to envisage 
 
world responsibilities on the economic and social side?
 
       For reasons which have already been indicated, it is felt that 
 
the politico-economic questions of Colonies should be dealt 
 
with on a world basis.
 
     Since trade is essentially international, and the repercussions 
 
of finance even more markedly so, there seems no doubt that 
 
these subject also must be dealt with on a world basis.
 
        So far as social questions are concerned, there are many 
 
reasons for preferring international to regional supervision.
 
     Epidemics, for instance, do not recognise political frontiers, 
 
and low standards of living in one group of countries may have 
 
very important effects on others.
 
     Above all the solution of world economic and social
 
problems requires the collaboration of all able persons of 
 
goodwill in every country and in particular the cooporation 
 
of the U.S.A. There is probably more disinterested goodwill 
 
towards international problems in the United states than in 
 
any other country.
 
    The service rendered to mankind byAmerican organizations, 
 
such as the Rockefeller Foundation, provide one great example.
 
     The foregoing considerations indicate that
 
                                                  whereas