The past four months have seen the beginning of a new and vitally important stage in Canada's world relations. With the collapse of France, the balance of power shifted its centre of gravity; and as that centre moved toward the western hemisphere, the essential place of Canada in the international structure became subject to a scrutiny more intense than it has hitherto undergone. The result has been illuminating, not only for outsiders, but for Canadians themselves. And among the things we have been forced to recognize is the multiplicity of loyalties to which we are inescapably committed by our position and by our past.