CHAPTER VIII 
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND MIGRATION 
[N a purview of world-affairs the two great elements 
which stand out unmistakably as calling for serious 
consideration are of course international economics 
and migration. The late war has shown that the 
interests of mankind are so interlocked that war is an 
international disaster. The wrongs and damage borne 
even by unoffending parties were such that, so long as 
the war lasted, innocent individuals were suffering, 
and however much some nations managed to profit 
through the calamities of others, and however great 
the fortunes made by individuals, internationally the 
war was a disaster of the first order, and its evil fruit 
is not yet done with. 
Since the greater issues between peoples concern 
their national systems of economics, and the freest 
possible movement of other peoples through their 
territories, it will be appropriate to consider these 
matters, for they must act upon the world’s future 
growth. In regard to economic issues all existing 
national attitudes are egoistic, and within the nations 
themselves they are individualistic. Attempts to 
obtain an undue control of important products, and 
to take full advantage of such control whenever it can 
be acquired, have been asserted not only as between 
nation and nation, but also against one’s own nation 
by its own citizens. As an indication of things that 
are happening, a system of world-survey of economic 
developments has already been formulated and put 
into partial execution, in order to give the nation 
an