Last week TIME'S London Bureau cabled: "Britons are asking about and talking about war in a dreadfully matter-of-fact waytwo years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into two opposing camps, with the extremists in both getting ready for "when war comes." As Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg spoke of a stronger U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), war talk was also heard in the U.S.
Men's fear had been sharpened anew last week by such varied signs of Russian aggressiveness as her...