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 The further areas and populations to be dealt with by the Conversion Committee are as follows:

This complication arises from our bewildered, and very reluctant, political imperialism in combination with an instinctive tendency toward economic imperialism on the part of a few, who think in more concrete terms than most of us, and carry the day both at home and in the outlying possessions. They know what they want, and with proper economic safeguards what they want is quite reasonable, namely, order, and freedom to conduct extended operations. What they get, under our present conflict of motives, is seldom advantageous to them or any one else. However, as long as these outlying possessions are within our economic borders, we must consider them.