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Messrs, Truman, Attlee and King abruptly outdated nearly everything that anybody else had to say about internationalizing The Bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But, from Teheran to Potsdam, no major communique had turned out to mean all that it seemed to mean; hone of the great promises had been entirely fulfilled. The world debate would...
...Pertinax (real name: André Géraud) had lost none of his reputation for perspicacity. In New York and in Washington, whither he moved in 1943, he was often a better source on European politics than reporters in Europe. He was the first to predict the Teheran conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. In November 1943 he suggested a United Nations Council, with headquarters in the U.S. He tactfully called it "the Big Four," leaving out his still-prostrate France. Long before most others did, he foresaw Marshal Tito's triumph over Mihailovich...
...Council had only one purpose: to begin translating the Big Three agreement made in principle at Potsdam into workable, specific understandings. And Potsdam was a sequel of Teheran and Yalta. If the failure at London proved to be permanent, then the Big Three's whole structure of postwar peace-the United Nations Organization, Bretton Woods, etc.-would be doomed to failure. The "one world" of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin would be the world of blocs, East v. West, whose outlines showed nakedly in London. The spectacle alarmed everyone-especially the conferees who refused to assume that the better world...
...Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, the Big Three, in Olympian isolation, molded a politically inert Europe. But there was life in the kneaded clay; last week post war Europe's face began to emerge. The destiny of Europe still depended mainly on relations between the U.S. and Russia, but Europe was acquiring recognizable lineaments...
...Marshal Stalin's famed Teheran toast to U.S. industry-"Without American production the United Nations could never have won the war"-was never more appropriate. The war was ending, and the record...