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...Congratulations, TIME! I received your May 15 edition here, "somewhere in Italy," on the 16th! This Pony Edition fills an important place in our lives here by letting us know what's going on back home and in the rest of the world outside our own tight little sphere before the news becomes cold and out of date...
...Elaborate plans for France devised by members of the Committee have been shelved pending clarity from the Allied side. For those plans all hinge on Allied action in both the military and the economic spheres, and the French just do not know what action in either sphere is going to be. Such indications as they have only intensify their misgivings, which approach desperation. . . . Neither in London nor in Washington, to judge by all evidence available here, is there anything like an adequate appreciation of the plight of France...
...began his political career as a follower of Cecil Rhodes. No disciple ever suffered more heartsickening disillusion. Impatient Cecil Rhodes stood unmasked as one of the plotters of the famed Jameson Raid (1895), which would have pulled sturdy Oom (uncle) Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic into the British sphere. Jan Smuts tasted bitter ashes. None of his original ties to Britain & Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British colonials. Now he declaimed...
...Atlantic Charter is nice, but it does not offer much competition to power politics. The little nations, the way things are going now, will have to fit themselves 1) into an overall pattern agreed on and supported by the Big Three; or 2) into the sphere of an individual Great Power among the Big Three...
Against all this stood a stubborn fact of power politics: Greece is in the British sphere and Moscow knows it. The Kremlin can plan to cast a spell on Yugoslavia, but it cannot hope to manage Greece-unless the British so misplay their cards as to force the Greeks to join a Balkan Federation, cued from Moscow...