The United States in World War II: 1941–1945

William G. Carleton is author of The Revolution in American Foreign Policy, published in a revised and enlarged edition by Random House in the fall of 1957. He has written numerous articles on domestic and international politics for periodicals in the United States and abroad, including Harper’s, The Yale Review, The American Scholar, The Economist (London), L’Express (Paris) and many others. This is his fourth article for CURRENT HISTORY.