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Those who think that Author Lippmann has merely coined a new name for the old ideogram "Western World" will do an injustice to the most analytical mind in U.S. journalism. For Walter Lippmann wrote his new book around the term Atlantic Community to describe a historical development which, if true, means a political change of planetary significance: the Western World's center of gravity has jumped West. Henceforth the Atlantic Ocean will be what the Mediterranean was for 20 centuries-the lake of decision. Implication: to the strongest power along the shorelines of this new Mediterranean may fall...
America, says Lippmann, is a continental island in the great oceanic basin of the Atlantic and the Pacific, and hence is foredestined to try to prevent the establishment of an aggressively expanding empire in either sea. That, and not trade conflicts, is the real reason why the U.S. has fought two wars with Germany in 24 years and has always supported China against Japan...
Three Worlds. Correcting Wendell Willkie, Author Lippmann submits that the world, far from being one, is divided into three parts-the Atlantic Community (in which the U.S. and Britain play the leading roles), the Russian Orbit, the embryonic Chinese Orbit. The postwar settlement with Germany is the combined job of the Atlantic Community and the Russian Orbit. The settlement with Japan is the tripartite job of the Atlantic Community, the Russian and Chinese Orbits. Together, the three "are the founding members of a world order of peace...
Policy toward Japan. Japan, Author Lippmann believes, must submit to being expelled from the Asiatic mainland, entirely shorn of sea power. "The terms defined in the Cairo Declaration will last if Russia, China and the U.S. stand firmly upon them...
...other political and moral accounts should be settled not by the U.S., but by Germany's victims in Europe. Later a neutralized and demilitarized Germany may find her place in the Atlantic Community, but "only with the sincere consent of the Soviet Union." If, on the other hand, Lippmann warns, Germany should ever slip into the Russian Orbit, Russia would have expanded to the shores of the Atlantic. "This solution would be intolerable for the Western World...