Both from the American and the international point of view,
the result of the election is to be welcomed. Domestically, a Democratic administration is likely on the whole to be faced with less industrial trouble than a Republican, and the dislocation arising from a change of Cabinet and of large numbers of higher officials will be avoided. Internationally, the policy the Truman Administration has pursued will be maintained, and with less anxiety about the view Congress may take of it. Isolationism, already moribund, has received more heavy blows and may be regarded as a non-existent force. Com- munism has been shown to be politically of no consequence, as Russia, where a pathetic belief in the possibilities of Mr. Wallace persisted, will not fail to note. Congress, of course, even though of the same politics as the President, will not fail from time to time to demonstrate its independence, but any such measure as an Atlantic Defence Pact will certainly be received far more cordially by the first Congress than it would have been by the Both. With the White House and the Capitol of one colour, and above all with the election a matter of history and all the temptation to trim and manoeuvre for votes left behind, the United States will be much more stable itself and much more capable of imparting stability to the world.
