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lie before us namely to the principle which I have already 
      dealt with in particular application to Greece Yugoslavia and 
      Italy the question what principle should guide us in regard to 
      countries which we and our Allies have liberated and also in 
      regard to that quite different class German satellite states 
      which are in one way or another working their arduous passage 
      home. Here of course I can only speak for Britain and it's special 
      responsibility. The expression "power politics" has 
      lately been used in criticism against us in some quarters. I 
      have anxiously asked the question "what are power politics?" 
      I know some of our friends across the water so well that I am 
      sure I can always speak frankly without causing offense. Is having 
      a navy twice as big as any other navy in the world power politics? 
      Is having the largest air force in the world with bases in every 
      part of the world power politics? Is having all the gold in the 
      world power politics? If so we are certainly not guilty of these 
      offences I am sorry to say they are luxuries that have passed 
                          away from us.                     
 
                                                            
 
 
I am therefore greatly indebted to my friend the illustrious 
      President of the United States four times summoned by the popular 
      vote to the headship off the most powerful community in the world 
      for his definition of "power politics" with that marvelous 
      gift which he has of bringing troublesome issues down to earth 
      and reducing them to the calm level of ordinary life the President