The Devil to Pay

It was almost enough to make a so-called Christian country believe in the Devil. There was certainly plenty of evidence of his devilish work around, for anyone to see.

Item: Other secret deals at Yalta were suspected (see INTERNATIONAL). Was cynical expediency the only rule in U.S. foreign relations?

Item: The U.S., glowing with well-fed satisfaction because it had agreed to supply some of its meat, wheat, fats & oils to feed the world's hungry, learned that, because of the Devil knew what, the food was not being delivered on schedule (see below).

Item: The Army pinned a hero's decoration on an entertainer (see ARMY & NAVY). Did the Army, or the U.S., know a hero when it saw one? Or, barring some hundreds of thousands of combat veterans, who the devil cared?

Item: Towards Great Britain, one of its last great friends, the U.S. teasingly dangled a $3,750,000,000 loan that would mean the difference between penury and power. Towards Russia, far better a friend than foe, the U.S. dangled a demonstration of destruction, over a Pacific atoll.

Item: Natives of Greenwich, Conn., threatened with eviction on behalf of UNO, huddled morosely. On Bikini Atoll, threatened with eviction because of atomic experiments, natives also huddled. The Devil, in either case, might take the hindmost.

It might have been worse: the U.S. might have felt no responsibility, no sense of personal implication, in these devilish complications. But whatever else could be said, the U.S. felt uneasy in its conscience. Americans knew that if the U.S. did not remember its old faith, and act accordingly, there would be the Devil to pay.

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