with the dean acheson, the president in 1945, you see someone who had developed a very clear logic for reconstituting the world economy after the collapse of the world economy during thethe great depression. if you wanted to name one person who was the person who constituted a logic of the post world war two era, it would be dean acheson first in the treasury department and then as assistant secretary of state and then as the secretary of state under truman. when you go from 1945 to 1989 and you enumerate the institutions that were polled and in 1940 by acheson and others, the imf, the u.n., the united nations and a soft piece for japan and germany, you see a world that could have been one world in the late 1940's that turned into two worlds. i have not heard anyone else say this to day, maybe it is so obvious that it does not require repetition. it was possible to see a long piece in 1991 that was not seen in the cold war. it was almost impossible to imagine major industrial powers fighting each other. when my friends and i have discussed the return of german in the to with the french

acheson would to truman and told him that, and they then decided that acheson in his next press conferencehe gave weekly press conferences, would mention the stalin answers were very interesting. that was the open part. behind the scenes part was that our delegation to the u.n. would ask their delegation, malik, was the omission of currency reform deliberate, and two weeks later mallach came back and said yes, it was. then the question was, at the next question was, is your leader open to solving this problem at this time? in the answer came back two weeks later, yes. it was a tremendous embarrassment. they knew they had lost once the winner was over. general winter had defeated napoleon. general winter had defeated hitler and he assumed general hitler-- general winter would defeat the air live and when it didn't he knew the game was up. >> he played a role in keeping the dialogue open. >> yes, yes. it was one of the real drawings. >> i think we have time for one more. >> i have a related question. can you speak to the prime minister britain and the political situation in britain and how t

no one, particularly dean acheson was the one who understood but one of stalin's answers meant. that is when he was asked about berlin airlift was still going on. when he was asked about berlin, he did not mention the currency reform, which after all was the stated reason for the blockade. .. is your leader open to solving this problem at this time? and the answer came back two weeks later, yes. it was a tremendous embarrassment to them. they knew they have lost once the loser -- the general winner had defeated the polling in the general winner had defeated hitler and he assumed general hitler -- general winter would defeat the airlift and when he didn't teeny the game was up. >> donations played a role -- back channel keeping the dialogue open. >> yes. yes. yes. it was one of their real tramps. >> i think we have time for one more. >> and the political situation that might have related to american decision. >> what related to it was, as many of you probably remember, when pottstown conference was set up, churchill was prime minister. he was then defeated by clement otley of the