The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-30

have not a sufficiently organized educational system nor & sufficient production of highly educated men to justify our continued usurpation of India's right to think out and work out it's own role in the confederation or mankind. And we are different from these dusky peoples; we do not work with them easily; we hamper them and they hamper us intolerably, But released from our entanElement with population six or seven times IS numerous as our own, our entan- element with this great mix-up of temperamentally alien peoples, the British and the associated English speaking communities scattered round the earth, extending their edu- cational organization and developing their still crude intellectual and po- litcal possibilities, may play & mod est and yet leading part fin that great synthesis which will ultimately give the world enduring peace. "Disen- tangle from India, draw nearer to America, come out of and keep out of ententes and alliances upon tho con- tinent of Europe;" these are the broad lines upon which I conceive itself and mankind.
 So far l have considered the British empire only from the points of view of the English speaking dominions and of India I will leave Egypt and Palestine. as they ought to be left, outside the discussion. They are, take It. relaxing protectorates. Nor will I say more than a word or so about purely strategic possessions, Malta, Gibraltar, etc.; they are part of our armament and their destiny Is dependent upon the possibility of world association sufficiently cCn- vinclng to make disarmament possi- ble. But there still remain great areas that are n~ither populated by Kindred communities nor subject civilizations barbaric regions that have been taken ovJr in order to exploit their natural resources and prevent their being ...onopolized and closed against us by some hostile power. The great overseas "empire" of Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was of this type. Such areas of eco homie subjugation are a very ancient type of foreign possession. In such a spirit Carthage once held Corcica Sardinia and large part of Spain. In our own lives we have witnessed the sharing-out of tropical Africa among competing European powers Behind such division and ownership lies the conception of bitterly com petitive, monopolistic trading states as the supreme form of human asso- ciation. That is an obsolescent con- ceptlon.
 Calls Tariff a Form Of War.
 The Americans decided a century and half ago that one necessary condition of existence for a federal union of sovereign states was uni versal free trade. All interference with the free movement of another community's trade, all tariff barriers and the like, are a mild form of war f11f ct hn rlo tn fA present division of Africa is extreme ly unstable and that if the system of competitive powers In Europe Is to go on, it Is only question of how long it will take France to feel secure enough against Germany to set about fighting for the whole of raw ma terial Africa. The organized peace of the world, the coming world ciziliza- tion, demands not only cessation of armalent, but a cessation of com mercl discrimination and such like material injuries.
 But these areas of undeveloped natural resources. of unexploited forests and minerals and the like, sustaining only sparse or under civilized population, must have ad- ministration and development from without. If that is not to be the dangerous task and privilege of a single exploiting state 1t must be the tdSh Ol some as yet nOn-eXiStant body acting in the common interest. Until that federal body can be de- veloped and equipped with forces and resources of it's own--it Is the most urgent of all necessary precau- tions against a future great war there is nothing for us to do but to go on holding these possessions of the third order. without trading dis crimination or settlement discriml- nation against any other race or people.
 It IS part of the fantastic national ism that still plays so astonishing a part in The political life of the world, to hold that every definable region of the earths surface be- longs, from sky to center, to the in habtants it supports. But with every increase in facilities of move ment this becomes constantly more impossible. It would for example place the vast mineral wealth of Labrador at the disposal of a few hundred wandering Red Indians.
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 The World For The World.
 The conception of a federated world system carries with 1t the | idea that all tho land and sea of