And Then There Were Two

The Chicago Tribune's Rhadamanthine publisher, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, last week ruled that three great nations--Britain, France and China-- were no longer great. Said the Tribune, in a characteristic editorial:

P: "The crippled, mendicant British empire is no longer a world power of the first rank. . . .

P: "The French have been so busy trying to be one, rattling the saber and making pretentious claims . . . that they haven't even been able to . . . keep their people from going cold and hungry this win ter. . . .

P: "The Chinese are more an amorphous mass of people than a nation."

From now on, said the Colonel, the Chicago Tribune will never refer to the "Big Five," only to the "Big Two": the U.S. and Russia.

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