At the Institute of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs  Van Kleffens is representing the Netherlands. His tiny nation’s stake in the solution of world problems is immense.

What does the rest of the world expect of the U.S.? What is the U.S. going to do about it?

On the answers to those two questions will hang issues of war or peace, of economic reconstruction or decline—indeed, the shape of the world for the next two or…