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...center of history and civilization is shifting to the Pacific, where Russia and the United States will play the dominant roles, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, told a forum at the Observatory Monday night...
Asserting that "the European Age is at an end," Professor Sorokin predicted that the Latin American nations will soon take their places in "the drama of history," and that India and China would follow. "What part can Europe and France hope to play here?" he queried...
...Francisco conference, Russian diplomacy has been more honest than that of the other big nations, Professor Sorokin claimed. The Soviet Union did not, he pointed out, indulge in the hypocrisy of the equality of all the United Nations, "little Iceland included...
While Secretary of State Stettinius insisted on giving the smaller power powers a chance to speak their respective pieces and ceremoniously went through the sham of listening to them, the Russians always maintained the truth of the Big Three position. Stettinius, Professor Sorokin indicated, let them talk but gave their opinions scant weight in plotting the ultimate decisions of the Big Three...
Mentioning that all the delegates at San Francisco are "checking one another," Sorokin ended the forum by stating that despite the "intellectual leadership of Time, Life, and Fortune, I do not expect war to break out between America and Russia. But in our life-time we will not see humanity united...