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...belief that she must have the Commonwealth & Empire behind her in order to remain a Great Power. His sage old friend, South Africa's Jan Christian Smuts, came out last year for the strongest possible Commonwealth bloc, as a friendly offset to the U.S. and to "the new colossus," Russia. Last week Smuts kept his counsel about Commonwealth centralization. But when the news of a League plan leaked out, with it came the word that Jan Smuts was its principal sponsor. Perhaps, as in 1919 (see below) he again saw a chance for something better than a power-political...
...sitting at his desk in London, Jan Smuts's thoughts are first of all on the coming shape of Europe, in which he foresees Russia as the colossus, France as a lesser nation, Britain in need of a fresh orientation of power. He says, emphasizing his words by drawing, with his index finger, neat holistic circles in the air: "The axis of the new world, the greatest new development today, is the cooperation of America and the Commonwealth...
Last month South Africa's Jan Christiaan Smuts bespoke a deep-seated British fear that: 1) Russia will be "the colossus of Europe"; 2) Russia and the U.S. between them may well outweigh Britain in the postwar world; 3) Britain herself will be impoverished and endangered by victory (TIME...
...therefore, left with Great Britain and with Russia. Russia is the new colossus in Europe, the new colossus that bestrides this continent. With the others down and out and herself the mistress of the Continent, her power will not only be great on that account, but it will be still greater because the Japanese Empire will also have gone. Therefore any check or balance that might have arisen in the East will have disappeared. You will have Russia in a position which no country has ever occupied in the history of Europe. Then you will have this country of Great...
...power. Here, across this sheltered, sun-warmed bay less than two years ago, the U.S. Navy lay writhing, its backbone splintered by savage, surprise attack. Now, after months of unparalleled building, the U.S. Navy had recovered, had grown to history's mightiest naval force, a sea-&-air colossus of 14,072 ships and 18,000 planes...