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This is a penetrating description of our post-war illusion, which applied to other areas than East Europe.

The same editorial continued that `` We expected to democratize Japan and Korea and to see a new China pattern itself easily on our institutions.

We expected, in short, that most of the world would make itself over in our image and that it would be relatively simple, from such a position, to deal with the localized aberrations of the Soviet Union ''.

Yet actually `` the image corresponded in no way to the actualities of the post-war world.

Neither our military, our economic nor our ideological power reached far enough '' to determine the fate of East Europe.

Then the editorial added prophetically: `` how far they may reach in Asia is yet undetermined, but they fall far short of our dreams of the war conferences ''.