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...difficulties is that, while the American people clearly recognize an actual interest in Europe, they do not recognize an immediate interest in such matters as the proper borders between, for example, Russia and Poland. Hull & Co. in Russia therefore must find some meaningful and forceful language with which to assert America's interest in a peaceful postwar Europe...
...large, but they soon will be. They are advancing from the Mediterranean into Southern Europe and toward Middle Europe-the areas to which Joseph Stalin is most sensitive. The range of Anglo-U.S. air power covers all Europe. Cordell Hull, of course, cannot and will not assert that these forces are or ever may be forces opposed to the Red Army. But Joseph Stalin himself, by his intense interest in the inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission-to which he took care to appoint one of his most formidable men-has already testified to the potency of American presence in Europe...
Thus a fissure widened between the men who cannot escape the Party label and those who stand ready to assert that they merely endured it. For the former the cue now was: hang on and hope for a stalemate; for the latter: get this war over with as quickly as possible-and make sure the English-speaking armies march into Berlin first...
Says Van Atta: "I'm [now] probably the greatest living authority on Mac-Arthur's strength and able to assert most solemnly that it's still terrific...
...similar problems which will be faced by whatever federation of powers ... emerges from this war. . . . These problems are not 'solved' merely by the declaration that 'imperialism' must be banished from the postwar world. By taking the initiative here, we might be in a position to assert real world leadership in relation to these same problems after the war. On the other hand, by continuing an ostrichlike, do-nothing policy at home, we are certainly inviting another Versailles...