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made up of some thirty-five members of the United
Nations which would meet periodically; deliberate,
and make recommendations to a smaller body; (2) an
executive committee made, up. of the Soviet Union, the
United States, the United Kingdom, and China, together
with two other European states, one South American,
one Near Eastern, one Far Eastern country and one
British Dominion, which would deal with "all non-mil-
questions such as agriculture, food, health and
economic questions"; and (3) "The Four Policemen"1
namely the Soviet Union, the United States, the
United Kingdom, and China, which would have the power
"to deal framediately with any threat to the peace and
any sudgen émergency which requires this action."
l'arshal Stalin said that he did not:think that
the small nations of Europe would like the Four Police-
men and added that a European state "would probably re-
sent China having the right to apply certain machinery
to. it". The Marshal also said "he did not think China
would be very powerful at the end' of the war", and
suggested às a possible alternative the creation of
a
European' or a Far Eastern Committee and a European
or a world-wide organization". the European Committee
to be made up of the United States, the United Kingdom,
the Soviet Union, and possibly one other European state.
The President indicated that the Marshal' idea was
similar to Mr. Churchill's idea of regional committees,
one for Europe, one, for the Far East, and one for the
Americas.
Later: in the conversation Marshal Stalin said
.
that any body set up to preserve the peace should have
the right not only to make decisions but to occupy
"strong points" against Germany and Japan The Presi-
dent said that he agreed one hundred percent. Then
the Marshal stated he "still was dubious about the
question of Chinese participation" The President re-
plied that he had insisted on the participation of
China in the Four Power Declaration at Moscow "not
because he did not realize the weakness of China at
present but [because] he was thinking farther into the
future and that after all China was a nation of four
hundred million people, and it was better to have them
¹see Conference of Three Foreign Secretaries,
Moscow, 1943, p. B-2.
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