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To a large extent, these disagreeable surprises are the consequences of a divisive and debilitating war, into which the coun try has been sucked as though drawn by a serpent's eye. Yet the problems we now confront are not, of course, merely the pro ducts of this war. If the country were at peace, they might be less acute, and our emotions, as we look at them, would prob ably be more equable. But even if the coun try were at peace abroad it would still not be at peace with itself. The country would still have on its hands, and on its conscience, problems of social injustice, avoidable poverty, misused natural resources, unlivable cities, faulty education, and a debauched public com munications industry. It would still have on its back a bountiful complex of special interests and a baggage of fears and illu sions that make for the allocation of large parts of the national income to unnecessary or dangerous purposes. The nation might have made more progress in dealing with such problems if there had been no war, but it would not have solved them. These
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