ABSTRACT
In the nature of things human and political, these established discrepancies may be and are being turned to account in various ways by politicians, publicists, and commentators. With regard to consequences in foreign affairs, the noble principles of the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter were, for practical purposes, discarded in the settlements which accompanied the progress, and followed the conclusion, of the war. Deprived of its "indispensable" leader through the death of President Roosevelt in 1945, the Democratic Party broke immediately into belligerent factions, while internationalists quarreled over the proceedings, meaning, and utility of the United Nations. The theory of unlimited power in the Executive over international relations is by no means confined to Army and Navy circles. Subsidized and powerful private agencies engaged nominally in propaganda for "peace" are among the chief promoters or presidential omnipotence in foreign affairs.
