Wanted: A Miracle

Anthony Eden spoke soberly in Ottawa of the need for cooperation among World War II's great powers. In London, exiled statesmen fretted about frontiers not yet won back from the enemy (see col. 2). In Washington, U.S. Under Secretary Sumner Welles felt his way through labyrinthine American emotions toward a formula for a postwar world (see p. 24). In all this hullabaloo, one small voice put the problem squarely to the powers which after all must solve it. Said Milan Grol, Yugoslav Minister of Communications and liberal Serb candidate for the vacant post of Foreign Minister in the exiled government:

"The great powers with which we are allied have to show their ability to be constructive; democracy generally has to demonstrate a sense of reality. . . . We smaller nations are often reproached with having narrow-minded conceptions which make agreement with our neighbors impossible and complicate the common problem. . . . But there is one condition fundamental to real harmony between all of us smaller states: a common attitude and will on the part of the British and the Russians, together with and assisted by the UIS. When at least those three great powers show agreement, determination to achieve those things they are agreed on, and the requisite discipline and authority, miracles will be done. Little saints never work miracles."

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