TraductionUnited States and the making of Europe
In early November 1946, the Republicans had won control of both houses of Congress and this unexpected election of an extremely conservative Republican Congress gave an impetus to the anti-communist crusade inaugurated by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri. In their campaign of 1946, the Republicans moved over to the offensive and identified all dissent voice with communism which was one of the most potent forces in their electoral victory. It was expected the implementation of a conservative foreign policy and a strong line against communism and Russia everywhere in the world. This new shift in American foreign policy in the aftermath of WWII was symbolized by The Truman doctrine.
On January 17, 1947, John Foster Dulles adviser to the State department made a speech urging Western Europe to unite economically around the coal and steel power of the Rhine basin as a bulwark against Soviet Russia. Echoing Winston Churchill, Dulles was trying to establish hurriedly a military bloc of the united States, Britain and France. French diplomatic circles approved Dulles proposition. Dulles sought to restore Germany as bulwark against the Soviet Union and supported her reconstruction by pushing the German industrialists and cartelists to power. Dulles’s posture was not starnge considering Mr Dulles long pre-war association with the same German interest.
