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...Harry Truman, in no position to fill such a role, seemed determined that all three of the Big Three should talk and bargain on an equal footing. He specifically avoided a preliminary Big Two meeting with Churchill; he did not want to go to Berlin as half of an Anglo-American bloc...
...realism-and sometimes the cynicism-of the profes sional politician. All of the evidence is that he is essentially conservative, a gradualist in all his thinking. On one major point Secretary Byrnes will certainly agree with President Truman: U.S. policy will be much more American than Anglo-American. Jimmy Byrnes will be with the President in any strong and specific assertion of U.S. rights and interests...
...lonely. Above all. lonely. General Charles de Gaulle, who had played the politics of grandeur with a high hand, had got his fingers pinched in Syria. Hungry for glory, the French had been happy when he signed the French-Russian pact and took his own good time about an Anglo-French agreement. They tightened their belts over their pinched bellies and felt like men again. Now they had no glory, no food and, they felt, no friends...
...sudden and large improvement in international relations. We learn that the 'Big Three' have agreed on the veto rights, that we are now on the way 'to a solution of the Polish question' and lastly, in big print, that 'Russia is siding with the Anglo-Americans.' . . . International harmony returns with the decline of France and perhaps this decline was the price paid for it. We personally think that Iphigenia was not exactly in favor of being sacrificed and we are not so angelic as to rejoice in being the scapegoat of this international embrace...
...Beginning. The Russians had no monopoly on trouble. In the British and U.S. zones, policy differed from district to district, and in some areas military government teams changed almost as often as the weather (TIME, June 4). Harsh observance of the non-fraternization rule was robbing the Anglo-American forces of the cooperation of sincere anti-Nazis, while the necessity of employing existing staffs for administration kept many a Nazi in power...