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     become, within a reasonable period, international.
                
            Under such a policy, the possession of colonies would
cease to have any importance from the standpoint: of strategy,
pretige or economics. In the long run the qualifications
for administrative or technical posts in the colonies ,would
depend not upon nationality but on ability.
 
ECONOMIC RE-ORGANIZATION
 
     There is little doubt that the real or imagined national
 
poverty of the "Have-not" countries in relation to the wealth
 
of the "Have" nations lies at the basis of the rise of
 
totalitarian regimes and explains, atleast in part, the
 
aggressions of Japan and Italy.
 
     Iy is also clear that before the series of European
 
political crises deflected men's minds from internal affairs,
 
there was arising an Insistent and even menacing demand
 
from the poorer classes for a more equitable share in
 
national wealth (of the Front populaire in France, the 
 
"New Deal" In the U.S.A. ).
 
     If world security is to be achieved the peace settle-
 
ment should make provision for dealing with both these seas
 
of grievances.
 
     So far as the grievances of the poorer countries are
 
concerned, the suggested provision for settling the
 
"Colonial" problem would go some distance towards eradi-
 
cating the causes of complaint. To this, however, would
 
need to be added arragements whereby the creditor nations
 
(themselves largely delieved from heavy expenditure on
 
armaments) should assist the other nations to reorganize
 
their finances and to develop their resources.
 
     The peace settlement should also be made the start-
 
ing point of an internationally concerted attack upon the
 
problems of poverty within each country.
 
                                        HEALTH