Suchergebnisse

The US is seeking a new party system. Neither the Democratic (Dem) Party nor the Republican (Rep) Party appears to be deserving of the confidence of the electorate, & especially not that of the independent voter who is the result of prosperity. The results of the Nov, 1956 elections show that if there exists an Eisenhower myth, as there did a Roosevelt myth, the identification of Eisenhower with the Rep Party has not come about. If Eisenhower has defeated the opposition at the national level, the Dem Party has succeeded in defeating the Rep Party in local elections. However, this Dem majority has itself changed in makeup: it is no longer dependent upon the public. By 1931, this shift in PO was already obvious. President Roosevelt, who replaced the traditionalist Hoover, decided that the recognition of the USSR posed no problems that could not be solved through diplomatic negotiations. He entered into discussions with Litvinov on the limiting of Communist propaganda in US territories & on the granting of freedom of belief to US citizens in the USSR. Once these problems were resolved, recognition of the USSR ensued, & the opponents of this policy were effectively silenced by this event. In another sense, the panic of 1929 destroyed the belief of Americans in the supremacy of their nation over that of the USSR, a belief which was founded not upon the equilibrium of forces but upon arbitrary moral judgments, & the panic forced the US to solve the Soviet problem in a realistic fashion (in terms of power). Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.