It is true that unilateralism had by 1945 become the major characteristic of the alliance, on an immediate level in Italy, Poland, France, and Greece, and most assuredly in the American initiatives and insistence on postwar economic and political goals. No structure had existed for such matters, save conventional diplomacy which the United States always used as a tool of delay, but the lack of a continuous diplomatic forum reflected a conscious desire on the part of the Americans to wait for time and circumstances to evolve to their favor. By Yalta, Washington seriously doubted the success of this wartime policy as the accumulated problems remained unresolved, and the conflict between the Allies was now well under way. Normal channels of diplomacy had been fruitless and deliberately weakened. Now hopefully the meeting of the heads of state could resolve not merely the weaknesses inherent in the two competing social systems, but also control the revolutionary social dynamic emerging from the war.
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