For ten months the postwar world's No. 1 problemcould the Allies agree about what to do with Europehad been dramatized in miniature in the barnlike rooms of London's Lancaster House. Could the U.S., Britain and Russia, in the persons of the three members of the European Advisory Commission,* agree about what to do with Germany when the military occupation was over? The details of some of their agreements had been unofficially reported. But later disagreements always delay publication of the Commission's official plans.
From Washington last week came reports that the three Allied powers...