15 JANUARY 1937, Page 3

America Today

The programme announced by President Roosevelt as the Seventy-fifth Congress in the United States opens, lends peculiar importance to the internal and external policies of that country at the present moment. Economically America's prosperity intimately affects that of this and other countries ; on the political side her foreign policy affects no less closely the outlook for peace in the Eastern as well as the Western hemisphere. In next week's Spectator will appear the first of three articles on America today by Professor Moritz Bonn, the well-known German economist. Professor Bonn, whose book, The American Experiment, is one of the most discerning discussions of the American social structure published in recent years, has just returned from the United States and will write on the existing situation in that country under the headings " Peaceful Change," " The Making of a State " and " Isolation and Responsibility."