ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author advances that the way to create wide interest in foreign affairs is to give a wider number of people an interest in them, and that this can be accomplished by making foreign trade and investment in backward countries a less risky and more normal enterprise. Diplomacy is carried on now by aristocrats in the language of royalty, and at first sight the democrat is inclined to feel that he is not sufficiently well dressed to talk about such high affairs. Business men would have to learn languages, study history and political conditions, and some knowledge of foreign countries would become a commercial necessity. There are certain technical difficulties in the way of a democratic control of foreign affairs. The effect of democracy is justly feared by those who wish to achieve national power by submissive unity.
