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THE second Inter–Allied meeting, held at St. James's Palace on September 24, fully justified the hope expressed by Mr. Eden at the conclusion of the first, held on June 12, that the meeting might represent the inauguration of a new phase by which peace will be maintained after victory. This second meeting indeed owes its chief significance, not to the accession of the Soviet Union to its counsels or to the adhesion of the Allied Governments to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter, affirmed at the meeting, important as these may be, but rather to the agreement on concerted action for reprovisioning Europe after defeat of the Nazi regime. That agreement, together with the support and interest of the United States indicated in the statement Mr. Eden was authorized to make on its behalf at the meeting, afford weighty evidence that this time the United States and the individual allies will collaborate in the peace after the war has been won. The importance of American collaboration was indeed confirmed very emphatically by Mr. Sumner Welles in a speech delivered on October 5, in which he discussed the urgent need for plans for reconstruction and condemned the policy of restricted trade followed by the United States during the period between 1918 and the outbreak of the War.
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INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY CONTROL. Nature 148, 541–544 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148541a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148541a0