Afterthoughts on the Election.

UNITED States politics & government; PRESIDENTIAL candidates; ELECTIONS; VOTING; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; INTERNATIONAL relations

The article discusses some of the political updates related to the U.S. In the American political system a national election seldom gives as cleat-cut a mandate as in the British system, where the winning party receives at the same time a vote of confidence, direct responsibility for carrying out its program and a parliamentary majority unequivocally committed to the task. Immediately after the election many persons felt that the U.S. President Harry S. Truman was one of the least committed or compromised candidates ever to return to office, but this is not really true. In the conduct of foreign policy and inescapably, to a large extent, of domestic policy, the bi-partisan program constitutes one of the most paralyzing commitments ever faced by a President.