a -139will be inferior to that of Russia. The Sovict system combines two features that will be useful in atomic warfare, namely totalitarian central government and ample space for dispersion. Since this will mean a higher probability of survival, it may increase the drawing-power of Moscow as compared with that of London and Paris. The Western grouping will be weakened, while the primacy of Russia in Europe will be still further emphasized, The result for Britain—and for France also if she does not enter the Russian orbit-—-—must be increased re- liance on America, aie nower ¢“oN wo we {~ 2 Such a clear-cut polarization of power, ardund the two great continental countries, the Soviet Union and the United States, offers scant prospect of a peaceful world co-operating in the common purpose of increased welfare. What chance thereis of averting it lics, it scems, in the fullest and specdiest possible development of all the conciliatory, judicial, economic and social activities planned for the United Nations Organization, coupled with the constant cffort to devise such a system of control over the use of atomic energy s will overcome the foar that the new discoveries have brought upon the world,