PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S RE-ELECTION
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—In a leading article in your last week's issue on the subject of President Roosevelt's re-election, you state your opinion that in his future policy the President " will never underestimate the importance of Anglo-American under- standing and friendship. In every new endeavour he may make to draw closer the ties between his country and this realm he will be assured of a warm and universal response here." There must indeed be few British subjects who do not endorse this view, and who do not hope that our country will show her willingness to take the initiative in establishing an era of still closer co-operation and under- standing between the English-speaking peoples.
There is a further reason for which many people will welcome President Roosevelt's re-election. Whatever our views may be as to the efficiency or advisability of the New Deal legislation, we must admit that the President saw clearly that " Our power to operate the economic machine we have created is challenged," and that his recent victory was largely due to popular approval of his bold acceptance of that challenge. He has shown that courageous and far- reaching experimentation for the betterment of social con- ditions has not become a prerogative of authoritarian regimes either of the Right or of the Left. His success at the polls will offer scant encouragement to those who seek to decry democratic government as an effete and obsolete institution.
am, Sir, yours, &c.,
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