“PASSING OF BRITISH EMPIRE"
THE NEW BALANCE OF POWER
AMERICA’S NEW ROLE
NEW YORK, March 3
The New York ‘ Herald-Tribune,’ in a leader on ‘ The New Balance,’ says: “ With the passing of the British Empire one of the greatest balance wheels of the nineteenth century has disappeared. There’ are but two Powers which can replace it—Russia and the United States. These are the only two sources from which can come the military power, the economic strength, and politico-social ideals which can stabilise the new world. In the nineteenth century Britain stabilised the old. It is a strange Situation for this country, which grew up so largely behind the shield of the British Empire, in which to find itself. It seems impossible that the United States should shirk' the challenge which that situation presents. It is the want _of foreign exchange and not destitution at home that prevents Britain carrying out her Imperial commitments she once assumed. Britons, on the average, are not much worse off now than they were before the war.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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