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[[Image:Cairo conference.jpg|thumb|300px|Generalissimo [[Chiang Kai-shek]], [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], and [[Winston Churchill]] met at the [[Cairo Conference]] in 1943 during [[World War II]].]]

(contracted; show full)H.] [[Arthur H. Vandenberg|Vandenberg]] noted in his diary in April 1944, "anything but a wild-eyed internationalist dream of a world state.... It is based virtually on a four-power alliance." Eventually this proved to be both the potential strength and the actual weakness of the future UN, an organization theoretically based on a concert of great powers whose own mutual hostility, as it turned out, was itself the greatest potential threat to world peace.<ref name="sheriff" />}}


==See also==
*[[Allies of World War II]]⏎
Each of the Four Policemen was to maintain order in its respective sphere: Britain in its empire and in Western Europe; the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the central Eurasian landmass; China in East Asia and the Western Pacific; and the United States in the Western Hemisphere.
Given the weakness of the government of Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin D. Roosevelt foresaw the United States dominating China's sphere of influence. Thus, in effect, the United States would run two spheres and thereby maintain global supremacy over a declining Britain and a Soviet Union badly damaged by the Second World War.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}}

==FootnotSee also==
*[[Allies of World War II]]

==References==

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[[Category:Politics of World War II]]
[[Category:History of the United Nations]]
[[Category:United Nations coalitions and unofficial groups]]
[[Category:United States and the United Nations]]
[[Category:China and the United Nations]]
[[Category:Soviet Union – United States relations]]


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