Abstract

Will America Back Out?

American liberal and progressive opinion is not playing a very creative role in the rapidly deteriorating international situation in 1945. The liberal and labor circles of Britain have been critical primarily of the policy of their own government. Liberal opinion in America has not fulfilled the true function of a minority. Either its criticism has been directed primarily against the Soviet Union and Britain upon the tacit or explicit assumption that American policies stand on a higher ground. Liberalism is equally inadequate which assumes that America has a vantage-point of international virtue from which it can survey, and be offended by, the power politics of the Soviet Union and Britain upon the continent. Such a liberalism merely proves that it is unable to discern the hidden realities of international politics.