Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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 Germany. The chief U.S. war aim in Europe is to prevent Germany from ever again detaching one of her neighbors from the Atlantic Community or from the Russian Orbit. AH 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...
...Author Lippmann's audit comes down to the question of relations between just two powers-the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "They can prevent a third World War. If they fight, it will be the most terrible of all world wars." But if Russia remains within her orbit, they have no reasons to fight. They would certainly fight "if the Soviet Union made an alliance with Germany, with Japan, or a separate and exclusive alliance with any member of the Atlantic Community"-for example, France...
Backstage. British diplomacy sighed with relief; three weeks of frantic antics in the cabinet, a nervous treble to the ominous bass of mutiny in wartime, had almost wrecked the careful plans to keep the Greeks in London's orbit. Winston Churchill thought it wise to put his stamp on Papandreou, stress once more that Britain is not irrevocably wedded to King George of Greece. Said Churchill: "His Majesty's Government will give you all support. . . . The Nazi tyrant must be destroyed. . . . After this ... the Greek nation, free from foreign interference, will choose the form of democratic government under...
...Wiscon sin's 24 delegates, he is still in the running for the G.O.P. nomination. If he does not, practical politicians were ready (& eager) to write him off. Willkie himself chose the battlefield, and it was a tough one. He chose a state partly within the reading orbit of the Chicago Tribune, a state that pledged its votes to Dewey...