Rivals, Revulsion, and Resolve

American policy toward EasternnEurope was a mixture of naivete and resignation.nRoosevelt was sincerely opposed,nin the Wilsonian tradition, to settingnup spheres of influence---^British ornSoviet---in the Balkans. His hopes restednwith the United Nations and democraticnself-determination---a peace whichnwould be stable because it was just.nWhen it became . . .