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Never in the history of the world was one people as completely dominated, intellectually and morally, by another as the people of the United States by the people of Russia in the four years from 1946 through 1949. American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic politics were conducted under a kind of upside-down Russian veto: no man could be elected to public office unless he was on record as detesting the Russians, and no proposal could be enacted, from a peace plan at one end to a military budget at the other, unless it could be demonstrated that the Russians wouldn't like it. American political controversy was controversy sung to the Russian tune; left-wing movements attacked right-wing movements not on American issues but on Russian issues, and right-wing movements replied with the same arguments turned round about.

All this took place not in a time of national weakness or decay but precisely at the moment when the United States, having engineered a tremendous triumph and fought its way to a brilliant victory in the greatest of all wars, had reached the highest point of world power ever achieved by a single state.


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Archibald MacLeish Links:

    -POEM: The End of the World
    -POEM: Ars Poetica
    -POEM: You, Andrew Marvell
    -INTERVIEW: The Art of Poetry: ARCHIBALD MACLEISH (Paris Review, Summer 1974)


    -The Archibald MacLeish Collection (Greenfield Community College Library)
    -Archibald MacLeish (Ninth Librarian of Congress)
    -Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient: Archibald MacLeish
    -Archibald MacLeish (Wikipedia)
    -Archibald MacLeish (Spartacus School)
    -Archibald MacLeish (Acadmeny of American Poets)
    -Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) (Modern American Poetry)
    - Poems by Archibald MacLeish (Poetry X)
    -FILMOGRAPHY: Archibald MacLeish

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