International: Ed & His Friends

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Anthony Eden must have smiled to himself. It was all very well for Molotov to deplore the strength of blocs—when Russia's growing bloc was not in question. The combined might of Russia and its European satellites had gravely worried the British, always sensitive to any shift in continental power. San Francisco, drawing the U.S. deeper & deeper into the world game of power, seemed also to be drawing the U.S. and Britain closer together. For the British, that was a comforting thought.