Washington and the Nation
Washington and the Nation The Discovery of Our Time ". . It is a safe snd conservative prediction that when the war is over, no matter who is President, no matter what party is in office, the...
...Walter Lippmann, in kit syndicated tolumn...
...Economist*, industrial leaders, pnblie officials are by no means entirely agreed which among the many measures are best...
...In the two great ware of oar generation and in the depression between the two wsrs it has been demonstrated, one may hope even to the satisfaction of the most unreconstructed minds, that mass unemployment is not inevitable and that it ia, therefore intolerable...
...But never again will they or the mass of people accept the view which was the common view thirty year* ago, that public policy has nothing to do with snd csn do nothing effective about the maintenance of reasonably full employment...
...Washington and the Nation The Discovery of Our Time ". . It is a safe snd conservative prediction that when the war is over, no matter who is President, no matter what party is in office, the paramount question will be how to achieve and maintain fell employment and a rising standard of life...
...But in this century, bloody and violent though it has been, mankind ha* made an epoch-making discovery...
...parties will stand or fall as they succeed in carrying it out...
...It ia that involuntary mass unemployment in a modern industrial nation is an unnecessary and preventable evil...
...Men have alway*, of course, deplored unemployment and wanted good and profitable work, and they have struggled and fought for it...
...No public man will deny this is the overall aim of j his policy...
...This is a new thing in our own domestic politic*, and indeed it is * new thing in the history of the world...
...Herald Tribune, May 20...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 25
