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 A WORLD PARLIAMENT

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��TABLE II

Allotment to World Parliament: Basis of Table I Modified so as to Cast

Nations into Power Groups

��Rvle,—AAd the allot- ments (Table I.) of the first and the second na- tions; divide by 2. If the quotient is not at least twice as great as the allot- ment of nation No. 3* add the allotments of Nos. 1, 2, and 3; divide by 3 and compare as before with the allotment for the next succeeding nation (this time No. 4), and so on until the comparison shows a drop of at least 50 per cent, between the quotient and the allotment for the next succeeding nation. Assign to each nation whose original allotment entered the dividend an allotment equal to .the quotient. Discard the re- mainder, then proceed anew with the succeeding nations.

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3.

4. 5.

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7.

8.

9. 10. 11. 12.

��13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

��27. 28. 29. 30. 31. Z2. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45.

��SoTereign Nation

��British Empire. . . . United States of

America

Germany

Russia

France

Netherlands

Austria-Hungary. .

China

Italy

Japan

Bdgium

Brazil

Spain

Argentine Republic

Switzerland

Sweden

Mexico

Turkey

Denmark

Portugal

ChiU

Norway

Rumania

Cuba

Ck)lombia

Persia

Peru

Bulgaria

Bolivia

Venezuela

Uruguay

Siam

Greece

Serbia

Equador

Guatemala

Paraguay

Salvador

Panama

Haiti

Santo Domingo. . ..

Costa Rica

Honduras

Nicaragua

Montenegro

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��The data for the calculations were taken largely from "The Statesman's Tear Book."

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