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Unless victory, in the long run, means about the same thing to Russia that it does to the U.S. and Britain, World War II may never be completely won-nor over. The two statesmen meeting this week had to face this final hard knot of United Nations diplomacy...
...their domestic audiences Nazi political commentators appealed for "conndence" with the assurance that conflict among Washington, London and Moscow was unavoidable. Said one commentator: "We Germans are much better politicians than the Allied statesmen, and therefore we are going to win the peace - whatever may happen." This was now the German game. If it fails somewhere in Valhalla the unseen hand will strike a mightier note...
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Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, who today is one of the world's most hardheaded statesmen, was born in 1876 -five years after Bismarck founded the Second Reich; six years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as "the prisoner of the Vatican"; five years after the Paris proletariat bloodily introduced Europe to a new form of the state-the commune or soviet. The consequences of these events were to mark the highlights of the career of Eugenio Pacelli...
...politician, Saracoglu would easily find a place for himself in the rough & tumble political arena of the U.S. He likes America, Americans and things American-automobiles, cigarets, architecture, movies, industry, government. He is a devotee of sports, an ardent rooter at Turkish soccer games. Unlike most European statesmen, he is approachable, informal, hearty and direct. He likes the cracker-barrel politics which, in Turkey, take place at small, informal dinners. A U.S. career diplomat of many years standing in Ankara said of him once: "He is more like an American politician than anyone else in European governments...