ON first consideration it seems rather curious to
hear it argued that the establishment of success-
ful government in backward states will democratize
the control of diplomacy in the so-called civilized
nations. That is not all, however. It can be main-
tained, I believe, that the effect will be to blur
frontiers, to diminish the sense of sovereignty, and
weaken separatism. The really internationalizing
forces of finance, commerce, labor, science, and
human sympathy, distracted and distorted to-day
by "national necessities," will be given a freer
chance to assert themselves.

This is, I realize, a large hypothesis, and only
as an hypothesis would I wish to defend it.

Organized behind their frontiers, even the most
advanced democracies deal with other nations as
"one man." Differences of interest and opinion
are sunk in order to present a united front to
the world. The sinking of differences means the

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