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...Plan. What, actually, did the President's plan propose? Neither the President nor Secretary Hull divulged anything more, but the news leaked. The Great Blueprint, it developed, had been started in February 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. It had been finished, in its present working-draft form, in May 1943. The President had kept the plan secret until well after Teheran, until he judged the political weather was right...
...high authority, the blueprint was said to call...
First outcry against the Great Blueprint came not from U.S. internationalists, who still seemed willing to trust Mr. Roosevelt to any limit-but from the small nations of Europe. Cried Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco N. van Kleffens: "The smaller states are made to feel the burden of war no less, and often more acutely, than the very great powers. It seems reasonable, therefore, that they should have their due voice in attempts to prevent...
That was that. U.S. voters could choose one of two pictures: that the President, a genuine "internationalist," was merely making a bid for some America First votes; or that he had all along been laughing up his sleeve at "internationalism." The Great Blueprint was just the working draft. There were almost certain to be more changes and shifts. In a crucial election year, Franklin Roosevelt was shrewdly working both sides of the street...
...Honest John kept plugging, trying to smoke out Messrs. Roosevelt & Dewey. He gave his own opinion freely on every topic. And. although he got no credit, he won a major point during the week. He has long been on record against an international police force. When the Roosevelt-Hull blueprint was unveiled it contained no such provision...