Foreign News: Blueprint for Europe

Victory and Winston Churchill will make the Conservative Party an odds-on favorite to win Government power in postwar Britain. Last week, top Conservatives who will probably wield that power put on the record their aims for postwar Europe.

Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that he wanted a "close, cordial and lasting association" with Soviet Russia; an Italy restored to its "rightful place among the free democracies";*a thoroughly devitalized and demilitarized Germany (see above); "a strong France and a strong French Army."

Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House that he sought "the closest collaboration with the Soviet Government"; that Allied...

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