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...United Nations will sit at the peace table in control of over 95% of the world's oil. An agreement among them on oil alone would in effect amount to a realist's League of Nations more powerful than any World Court yet dreamed of-and more instantly effective. For no nation can yet make war without oil; and if all but a dribble of the world's oil were on the peace table, under agreement to be sold only to non-aggressor nations, then postwar cooperation might be put on the simplest and most realistic bases...
Whenever I tried to inform some self-named realist of our tremendous resources, he'd thrust out his bay window (substitute for brains) and ask for "statistics, little lady, statistics" - you know...
Then he emphasized his firmest intention: that the U.S. can, will and must do business with Russia. He was asked: What was Stalin like? The reply: Something like me-a realist...
...Joseph Stalin, Russia's No. i realist, who observed this fact with great interest, for he recognized with Lenin, whose "best disciple" he claims to be, that "facts are stubborn things." Stalin was also aware that restoration of the Russian Orthodox Church was roughly equivalent to Russian religious occupation of the Balkans...
Roosevelt and Realism. When President Roosevelt was asked recently by the New York Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick what he would say to Stalin, he replied that "to begin with he would announce that he was a realist and intended to discuss the problems that had to be dealt with in common on the basis of realism...