is no reason why such a scheme should not be in itself desirable, or why the United States and   
ourselves should not encourage it, so long as it is not directly pointed against Russia but based   
on the need of permanent peace within Europe.  It might of course be a result of any form of   
mutual European union that Russian expansionist ambitions would tend eastwards and that we might   
be faced with difficult problems in Persia, or China with similar difficulties in Mongolia and   
elsewhere.  These are matters which must be left to be dealt with when they arise.  For the time   
being I see no reason why we should not continue to aim at the maximum of friendly cooperation   
with Russia over the whole field of foreign policy, though without abandoning such objects as,   
for instance, a better coordinated Europe, as we think essential to future peace. All this is of   
course just thinking aloud on my part, entirely personal to myself.
 
 
 
Yours very sincerely,
 
 
 
P.S. Since dictating the above I have seen the enclosed article in "Free Europe" written I   
imagine by some Central European refugee.  It states very fairly the alternative possibilities   
of future Russian policy in Europe.