Canada, instead of working for universalist principles of lasting peace, would end up helping the powers pursue their limited national interests in Germany and Central Europe.This became important as the assumption of Great Power cooperation gave way to evidence of Great Power dissension.
Canada's observer in Berlin was one of the first to notice the chilling of the atmosphere, reporting a "sensation of g rim opposition of conflicting forces, glacier-like one might almost say."A struggle had begun "between the East and the West over the prostrate body of Germany."
Canada's gradual adjustment of the definition of the German problem to the changing context of Great Power relations showed a surprising degree of continuity and stability, as the key elements of containment and reconstruction assumed new meaning in the emerging postwar order.
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