In the same vein, the League of Nations had addressed the necessity of "keeping expenditure within income," balancing expenditure out of revenue: "Th is principle must be clearly brought home to the peoples of all countries; for it will be impossible otherwise to arouse them from a dream of false hopes and illusions to the recognition of hard facts" (Th ree months of the League of Nations, vol.

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 723