Abstract

The Challenge of the Election

The article presents excerpts from addresses at The Nation Associates Conference held at New York from October 7-8, 1944. The warm response to the invitation shows how keenly aware people are of the immensity of the stakes tied up in the Presidential campaign under way. Everybody realize what Americans are up against. And realizing it people are concerned to understand in all their difficult detail the problems that face people, so that people may act with intelligence and courage as citizens of the most powerful democratic nation in the world. The problems singled out for consideration at this conference are those of international political relationships, internal economic relationships, and those human relationships involved in differences of race, religion, and political persuasion. Most of the people here probably favor an amendment authorizing the ratification of treaties by the U.S. Senate majority or, at most, by a majority of both the U.S. Houses.