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Along some such lines as these must our thoughts of

future reconstruction be directed. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross is for- tunately too imaginative a man to allow the work of his com- mittee to be confined to the mere accumulation of surpluses or himself to become the great provision-merchant of the world. Inevitably it will expand into a Supreme Economic Council intent not merely upon relieving immediate scarcity, but upon planning the slow stages of future economic co-operation. I trust that these plans will before the war ends be sufficiently cemented to withstand the great tides of nationalism which are bound to be released.