International: Healthy Realization

Both Britain and Russia knew what they wanted UNO to be. The U.S. was not quite sure.

On one side of the fence stood Britain, insisting that the Big Three could not run the postwar world as they ran the Allied world of wartime and that UNO, as Clement Attlee said last week, "must become the overriding factor in foreign policy." The British were for true collective security on a world scale.

On the other side stood the Russians, insisting that it is still a big-power world, which must be run by the big powers....

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