In a week of great turmoil at home, the U.S. people discovered that their Government had, at last, a working foreign policy. It was not a perfect policy; it had not yet been translated into success. It was a policy formed in response to events, in defensive opposition to the dark self-interest of Russia. It still groped for specific solutions. But in outline and intent it was there for all to see.
Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes had come back from the Paris failure with renewed determination rather than disheartenment. His proposal to throw the whole peace-making machinery into the...