In spite of bewilderment in Teheran (see above), many people in many capitals of Europe and Asia knew quite well who the U.S. Republicans were, and had expected them to win.
How did these Europeans and Asiatics feel about the U.S. elections? They felt uncertain. They crossed their fingers.
From Nanking to London, there was much less uncertainty in the political prospect than in the economic. The essentials of the Byrnes-Vandenberg bipartisan internationalist line had been laid down so firmly that no well-informed observer expected the Republicans to repeat 1920 by pulling the U.S....
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