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     If the situation is to be saved it is essential for
the three principal Allies to examine carefully the pres-
ent political forces at work in the liberated countries 
in Europe in order to ascertain if there are not politi- 
cal groups and parties which would be mutually acceptable 
and to which all three countries could give whole-hearted 
support. It would be necessary to start by excluding 
either a right-wing government in which "reactionary" 
elements regarded by the Soviet Government as intrinsic-
ally hostile would predominate, or a single party Commun-
ist totalitarian state. Between these two extremes, how-
ever, lies the bulk off the political sentiment of  the 
peoples of Europe.
 
     Judging from present indications the general mood of
the people of Europe is to the left and strongly in favor
of far-reaching economic and social reform, but not,
however, in favor of a left-wing totalitarian regime to
achieve these reforms. Until such time as it is possible
to hold genuine elections in the liberated areas, in cer-
tain countries et least, such as Greece and Poland, it will
probably be necessary for the principal Allies, and for
this purpose France should be included in that category,
to accept and support interim governments. The character
and composition of these governments is precisely the
place where the Allies must have an agreed pollitical pro-
gram. These governments must be sufficiently to the left
to satisfy the prevailing mood in Europe and to allay
Soviet suspicions. Conversely, they should, be sufficient-
ly representative of the center and petit bourgeois ele-
ments of the population so that they would not be regarded
as mere preludes to a Communist dictatorship.
 
         In so far as the United States is concerned the fol-
lowing two criteria could be applied to any proposed 
interium government: (1) that it should be dedicated to 
the preservation of civil liberties; (2) that it should 
favor social and economic reforms.
 
           In order to work out with its Allies for the interim 
period an agreed, mutually acceptable political basis for 
coordinated policies, the United States Government should 
be prepared, when the internal condition of a liberated 
country so demands, to participate in inter-Allied com-
missions to act as observers and to insure that at the 
proper time the people of that country will be given a 
genuine opportunity to elect their future government.