A LTHOUGH many of us had learned to think in terms of one world by the end of the war, it would now seem that we are instead in need of education for a divided world. This unpleasant truth obtrudes itself with particular force in view of the East-West conflict in Europe. Western civilization, now represented by the English-speaking nations and France, and the forces of the East, now represented by the Soviet Union, confront each other across the Elbe River and in Berlin. Who or what is to be blamed? Western imperialism? Soviet aggressiveness? The agreements reached at Tehran and Yalta? The lack of agreement ever since? These questions cannot be answered here. It must merely be pointed out that EastWest frontiers in Europe are not new. Europe was born, as it were, with the scars of division across her face. More than once these scars have seemed to
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Werner J. Cahnman (1949) studied this question.