Afterthoughts on the Election.

UNITED States politics & government; UNITED States presidential elections; POLITICAL campaigns; ECONOMIC history; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; INTERNATIONAL relations

The article focuses on the social and political conditions in the U.S. after the presidential elections. The U.S. President Harry S. Truman's campaign speeches were based on New Deal ideas that originated in a long-past national experience. So many political and economic factors and so many psychological elements in the outlook of individuals have been changed by the war and subsequent developments and by recent great technological advances that the second Truman Administration can hardly be expected to be other than a travesty of the Roosevelt New Deal.